Re: The encoding API

2004-08-13 Thread Gopal V
Hi Dan & Michael, As a guy who speaks a strange language (multi byte chars, multi glyph chars, caseless text and half vowels) , I think you have made it too complicated than it should be . > charset end of things, offsets will be in graphemes (or Freds. I > don't remember what we finally decided

Re: The encoding API

2004-08-13 Thread Michael Stone
After my discussion, I've included an annotated copy of the functions, where I've added my comments after each function. So, assuming (hah!) that I correctly understood everything in the draft, It seems that I have several general concerns: 1. Why are lists of bits or bytes that are being inter

Re: The encoding API

2004-08-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 2:19 PM +0530 8/11/04, Gopal V wrote: Hi Dan & Michael, As a guy who speaks a strange language (multi byte chars, multi glyph chars, caseless text and half vowels) , I think you have made it too complicated than it should be . This scared me some, as I've not gotten to the complicated part... :

Re: The encoding API

2004-08-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:29 PM -0400 8/9/04, Michael Stone wrote: After my discussion, I've included an annotated copy of the functions, where I've added my comments after each function. So, assuming (hah!) that I correctly understood everything in the draft, It seems that I have several general concerns: 1. Why