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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Q: The dimension of UNICODE awareness
From:       Dawit Alemayehu <adawit () earthlink ! net>
Date:       1999-10-14 15:27:06
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On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, David Faure wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 01:15:48AM +0000, Mirko Sucker wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > > I wonder how far we support Unicode in future. Do I have to be aware that
> > > filenames and pathes could be handled over in Unicode?
> > I think so. I've seen Korean filenames including non-ascii letters.
> > We need to model all filenames and paths using QString.
> > 
> > But I don't know about URLs - the non-ascii chars are encoded, so
> > is "const char * url" ok ? We have quite a bit of those...
> 
> Yes. An URL contains by definition only ASCII.
> 
> > > Does anybody know something about Unix interna regarding this?
> > Unix internals use the locale setting, no ? Don't know how
> > that copes with more than 256 values though... It
> > probably doesn't.
> 
> URL's are very bad in handling unicode stuff.. Basically URLs are 8-bit
> based.

ahem I though US ASCII was 7-bit based system and that it was just encoded as an
eight bit sequence.  The high order bit is insignificant ( always 0 ).

Regards,
Dawit A.

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