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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KOScript & KSpread
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicog () snafu ! de>
Date:       2001-09-01 19:55:20
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On Thursday, 23. August 2001 12:51, Werner Trobin wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I thought I'll have some fun in the holidays and try to make
> KOScript work with Unicode input and stuff like that. I started
> to check the sources and now I have some questions:
>
>
> (...)
>
> 2) Should it be possible to process Unicode strings? That means not
>    only "=A1+A2" should work if these fields contain non-latin1 text,
>    but also e.g '="Hallo"+A2' where "Hallo" is some unicode text.
>    How to pass these strings around? UTF-8?
>    flex isn't able to process Unicode (UCS-2) strings, but it should
>    be possible to hack around that by passing UTF-8 and allow "real"
>    UTF-8 only for string literals. Plain Expressions like =A1+A2 don't
>    contain anything but ASCII so that should work, no?
>

Tricks seem to exist to make lex/flex work with UTF-8, as the recommended 
tokenizer in flex for CSS2 can tokenize UTF-8 files ( see in Appendix D of 
the CSS2 Specification ( http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2 .)) 

>(...)
>
> So before I start tearing KSpread apart I'd like to hear your comments
> and suggestions ;)
>
> Ciao,
> Werner

Have a nice day/evening/night!
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