Re: Unicode support

[Markus Plail]

* Markus Plail writes:
>Hi Pawel!
* Pawel Kot writes:
>>>>>address@hidden 27 September 2002 09:48:51 >>>
>>>I thought the same. And with my tests with Hu's test app wctomb always
>>>returned 1 not 2.
>>>
>>>So I throw the following code into the ring ;-)
>>>
>>>void char_decode_unicode(unsigned char* dest, const unsigned char* src, int 
>>>len)
>>>{
>>>int i;
>>>
>>>for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
>>>wctomb(dest + strlen(dest), (src[i * 2] << 8) | src[(i * 2) + 1]);
>>>return;
>>>}
>>>
>>>Works with both my 6210 folders and Hu's test app. 

>>I think it won't work. Not sure, but I think it has the current
>>semantics.  The whole purpose of this patch is that wide character may
>>be more then 2 bytes wide (for chinese characters, 2 bytes are
>>sufficient for all european languages I think).

>Why wouldn't it support wider characters? wctomb adds them to the end
>of dest. If it's 4 Bytes it adds four bytes. The version now in CVS
>just discards wider characters.

Now I managed to save the test app with the proper encoding (cn-gb) and
I get exactly the same output as Hu:

address@hidden:gnokii]$ ../tst_unicode 

c4 |e3 |311|322|ba |c3 |311|355|00 |00 |00 |00                 ..12..15....    

4fO|60`|00 |311|00 |322|59Y|7d}|00 |311|00 |355|00 |00 |00 |00 O`.1.2Y}.1.5....
40@|b0 |04 |08 |28(|af |04 |08                                 @...(...        

c4 |e3 |311|322|ba |c3 |311|355|00 |00 |00 |00                 ..12..15....    

regards
Markus

PS: Asia has *way* too many encodings/charsets ;-)