Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 22:54:30 -0700 From: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> To: Garance A Drosehn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: phil@juniper.net, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XML Output: libxo - provide single API to output TXT, XML, JSON and HTML Message-ID: <20140730055430.A78B1580A2@chaos.jnpr.net> In-Reply-To: <1092D020-F782-4587-A199-C7313BC2CD20@rpi.edu> References: <20140725044921.9F0D3580A2@chaos.jnpr.net> <CAETOPp13H7kyLy-1VJRDOsDbOh8A1MWZDxw1xHUBsxTRtMfc7g@mail.gmail.com> <20140728054217.AC1A0580A2@chaos.jnpr.net> <20140728055336.GJ50802@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <CAETOPp3hJB8Gj%2BPMj3N951krnNqCYiAOY-cPHxMCBy1CQXWJaQ@mail.gmail.com> <A1E63A7A-BB38-4CC3-B5EC-B251BE990572@mail.turbofuzz.com> <20140729230345.31E9B580A2@chaos.jnpr.net> <53D85495.4050408@mu.org> <448BB170-6DDC-442B-A5C5-973EC35FF7B9@rpi.edu> <1092D020-F782-4587-A199-C7313BC2CD20@rpi.edu>
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[+phil who somehow got dropped] On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 23:40:14 -0400, Garance A Drosehn writes: >I also wanted to highlight an issue that Simon brought up in the initial >message for this thread: > > "The main open issue (assuming this functionality is still desired) > is support of wide characters. > > We figure the worst case solution is a sed(1) script to generate > the wide version of the API from the normal one, but perhaps simply > always using UTF8 would be a better solution?" Thanks, good not to lose sight of that in all the color discussions ;-) >In my own experiments I've pretended that all the output 'lpq' generates >is simple ascii, although that's not necessarily true. The filename >field is set by whatever generated the output, which might be a PC or Mac >which may or may not be unicode-aware. The field might be gibberish (aka >"invalid unicode"). Obviously "pretending" is the wrong way to handle >this issue. Indeed. UTF-8 has its attractions since i18n cannot simply be ignored in this case.
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