- From: Ramzi GUETARI <Ramzi.Guetari@inrialpes.fr>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:57:17 +0200
- To: Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr
- cc: Bertrand.Ibrahim@cui.unige.ch, www-amaya@w3.org, Ramzi.Guetari@inrialpes.fr
In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 15 Jun 1999 08:55:16 +0200."
<199906150655.IAA25606@tahiti.inrialpes.fr>
Hi,
We undertake to support _Unicode_ not UTF-8.
Actually, UTF-8 is used to store data in files. To process
any kind of data (UTF-8, ISO-Latin*, ...) we need another
internal encoding and procedures to convert, for instance,
from UTF-8 to our internal representation of characters and vice-versa.
I can't bet you that everything will be ready by the end of this year
because we plan to support Unicode in the perspective of the software
globalization. This needs more than the character encoding.
In my opnion, even if everything is ready, we cannot release
Amaya without a serious testing especially if 95% of the source
code changes, nevertheless, we will try to do as soon as possible
and as well as we can.
Ramzi.
>In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 11 Jun 1999 19:13:51 +0200."
> <0FD600EVWAJ3Y7@cuimail.unige.ch>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am just wondering whether Amaya already supports UTF-8 character encoding
>> or whether it is planned to support it in the near future. I checked the
>> documentation and the mailing list archive, and UTF-8 doesn't seem to be
>> mentioned anywhere.
>>
>> Thanks for the info.
>
>
>THis work is in progress and we hope to have the UTF-8 support by the end
>of this year.
>
> Irene.
>
>
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