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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Native speaker/expert wanted: terms for encodings of bytes
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2003-11-01 12:57:43
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On Saturday 01 November 2003 13:35, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> 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 ;)

What about the word "character"? It is encoding-neutral.

Have a nice day!

>
> > 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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