Re: enscript support !

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- ahmad khalifa <ahmadkhalifa at hotmail dot com> wrote:
> today i got enscript's source, and after looking at it
> i found out it doesnt support Unicode !!!

Ouch.

> it supports ascii, koi, iso-8859-1 to iso-8859-5 and -7....
> anyway, my point is we can add iso-8859-6 support very
> easy and quickly, but no unicode !!!
> 
> they have Unicode support in their TODO file. we could
> postpone this for later, when they get that support in, or
> we could step in and add our own utf-8 support ???
>
> adding utf-8 support wouldnt be a big task. and besides,
> the utf-8 decoding functions could be a plus to minibidi :-)

Ahmad, it's upto you completely - I would have opted to say that
we don't add Unicode support ourselves as I'm sure that it will
be a complete can of worms (ie. there will be alot more work
that we might not be interested in as I'm sure there are all
sorts of requirements and all sorts of people to make happy
with regard to the larger Unicode requirements).

If you think (and get assurance from enscript's authors) that
adding the unicode support you have in mind is sufficient and
then adding arabic support is OK, then go for it.

Just my $0.02's worth.

Salam.

 - Nadim



	
		
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