Desktop Specification 0.9.4 *final* draft ;)

Heinrich Wendel h_wendel at cojobo.net
Thu Jul 17 16:35:50 EEST 2003


On Monday 14 July 2003 23:36, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 15:38, Richard Moore wrote:
> > On Monday 14 July 2003 01:29, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 12:00:00AM +0000, Richard Moore wrote:
> > > > localestring	Are these always going to be UTF-8? Would it be worth
> > > > having a hook to allow support for other encodings to be added in
> > > > future?
> > >
> > > The encoding is determined by the Encoding= field, if it's
> > > Legacy-Mixed then the encoding of localestring is determined by the
> > > locale of the string (as given in the table in the spec), if it's
> > > UTF-8 then the file is all UTF-8.
> >
> > That's not what the 0.9.4 draft spec says, at the end of the 'Character
> > set encoding of the file' section it says 'The encoding for values of
> > type localestring is UTF-8.'
>
> In the 0.9.4 revisions, almost all references to the deprecated
> Legacy-Mixed were summarily removed, except for the appendix explaining
> how it worked.
>
> I think this was premature ... unless Legacy-Mixed is *actually*
> removed, not just deprecated, then the text explaining how it integrates
> with the rest of the spec is needed, though it might make sense to
> provided reminders of the deprecated status at each mentin.

please take another look, i fixed some things ;)

>
> Regards,
> 						Owen
mfg, Heinrich :)


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