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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] Add select encoding in Control Center (for CVS HEAD)
From:       Ilya Konstantinov <kde-core-devel () future ! shiny ! co ! il>
Date:       2001-09-27 20:35:19
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On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:21:25PM +0200, David Faure wrote:
> > UTF-16 should be supported in Qt 3 as well as ISO-8859-6.
> 
> But we decided against using UTF-16 and other multi-byte encodings
> as the global encoding, since many programs (KDE and non-KDE)
> don't support this at all. 
> UTF-16 as a font charset is fine, but as the encoding for saving files, is
> too dangerous. It breaks much, far too much.

Yeah, I agree with that. Do we exclude it from the
KCharsets::descriptiveEncodingNames() list? (bad idea, since web sites
can use it)
Maybe descriptiveEncodingNames should get a new 'int flags' argument
where you'd request things like KCharsets::null_safe or KCharsets::logical
(exclude Visual versions of BiDi encodings, e.g. ISO 8859-8) ?

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