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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Native speaker/expert wanted: terms for encodings of bytes
From:       "Friedrich W. H.  Kossebau" <Friedrich.W.H () Kossebau ! de>
Date:       2003-11-01 12:35:01
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Am Freitag, 31. Oktober 2003 21:16 schrieb Adriaan de Groot:
> On Friday 31 October 2003 16:22, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > middle column: KHexColumn
> > right column: KTextColumn
> > enum for encodings of the middle column: KCoding
> > enum for encodings of the right column: KEncoding
>
> classes KDecimalDisplayColumn
> KHexDisplayColumn
> KASCIIDisplayColumn

This conflicts with my design: 
There I have a column which is able to display numerical encodings of whatever 
kind. Which encoding to use is controlled by an attribute. Another column is 
able to display the mapping of the byte values to a character table. This 
column would not be restricted to ASCII. There are some other encodings out 
there, like the EBCDIC family. Take care of minorities ;)

> Use enum named KDisplayColumnType, with values HexDisplay, DecimalDisplay

So you say/propose that display is a/the correct term for the numerical 
display of the byte's value?

> ...
>
> as I'm not sure what you're trying to do, it's hard to guess good names.

Oh, I tried so hard to explain :( One more try:

I am searching for correct terms (if there are) for

* a column where bytes are displayed in some numeric encoding
* a column where bytes are displayed using some character encoding
* the name of a category of numerical encodings
* the name of a category of character based encodings

> I'd suggest that you not force one decimal-like view and one ascii-like
> view on the user, but allow several side-by-side columns with various
> display types.

If you could give me some use cases I will create such a widget, too (the 
framework is there). But as far as I could see and need it myself you only 
want to have a column where the bytes are displayed in some character 
encoding and a column with some corresponding numerical display. 

Thanks anyway

Friedrich
 
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