Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of UTF8Notes

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10/02/11 15:57:01 (8 years ago)

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noz

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+= UTF-8 and Wide-character handling in Angband =
+
+== Background ==
+
+As of the sequence of commits from 589d1d3 to c91ae22, (plus a few bug-fixes and cleanups since) the Angband source is able to handle UTF-8 characters in its edit files, and has dropped the previous hacky mechanism of generating accented characters (with sequences like ["e] for ë).
+
+There are a number of changes that had to happen for this to work, and this page aims to document them.
+
+== Locale ==
+
+Angband now needs to be run within a UTF-8 capable locale, and this is checked in '''main.c''':''main()'', as:
+{{{
+        if (setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "")) {
+                /* Require UTF-8 */
+                if (strcmp(nl_langinfo(CODESET), "UTF-8") != 0)
+                        quit("Angband requires UTF-8 support");
+        }
+}}}
+
+== Files ==
+
+All the edit files are now expected to be in the UTF-8 encoding, and can have accented characters directly inserted in them.
+Output files such as spoilers, character dumps and other text output is now in UTF-8.
+
+(What about screen dumps?)
+
+== Internals ==
+
+=== "Canvas" ===
+
+=== Textblock ===
+
+=== Parsers ===
+
+In reading the edit files, all strings are maintained in UTF-8 until needed.
+Glyphs are read in directly to a wchar_t type.
+
+== Ports ==
+
+This section lists port-specific changes and what the individual ports do with the wide-char representation of the display characters to get them onto the display.
+
+=== SDL ===
+
+=== X11 ===
+
+=== GCU ===
+
+=== Windows ===
+
+=== OSX ===
+
+=== GTK ===
+
+=== Android ===