[PD-dev] pool files: UTF-8 encoding
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at eds.org
Thu Nov 30 03:20:56 CET 2006
locales is the library and tool that handles that stuff, IIRC.
You'll want to look into the env vars LANG, LC_ALL, etc. I think
that's supposed to be system-wide, but with all those grabbag distros
based on the Linux kernel, you never know who implemented what and
how in their bit.
.hc
On Nov 29, 2006, at 4:37 PM, Thomas Grill wrote:
> Hi all,
> trying to fix loading/saving of non-ASCII characters in pool files.
> In the future, text files will still be saved in the native
> encoding, but XML will be UTF-8.
>
> Since i'm not very linux-savvy: I guess the default code table used
> for PD patchers is the same as being used for the X-server, right?
> Is there an API function to query this encoding and/or is there a
> system function to convert from/to UTF-8?
>
> best greetings,
> Thomas
>
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