[FriBidi] Fribidi 2.0 Status?

[Shachar Shemesh]

Nadav Har'El wrote:

>On Wed, Aug 31, 2005, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "Re: [FriBidi] Fribidi 2.0 Status?":
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>>I'll mention that the Wine project is literally eager to dump the
>>current solution in favor of Fribidi, as soon as it is supporting UTF-16.
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>In hope of not making an ass of myself...
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>Isn't the conversion of UTF-16 into UTF-8 a straightforward one? Why can't
>the Wine code convert the strings into UTF-8 just before calling Fribidi,
>instead of Fribidi having to contain that code?
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Because Behdad's suggestion would mean that fribidi could do UTF-16
directly, without having to convert anything to anything.
Straightforward though the translation from UTF-16 to UTF-8, it's no
match for no translation at all.

>By the way, I'm curious: Does Windows actually support UTF-16, or just
>UCS-2 (i.e., only the first 65536 characters of Unicode)?
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That is a question I've been trying to get an answer to for two years.
The results are inconclusive at best.

>P.S. The signature on the bottom was randomly chosen. I swear
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I'll buy that bridge now, thanks.

          Shachar