Re: GetApplicationTextEncoding & "carbon free"
Re: GetApplicationTextEncoding & "carbon free"
- Subject: Re: GetApplicationTextEncoding & "carbon free"
- From: Aki Inoue <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:39:29 -0800
Hi,
Mike's comment is right on.
The sole purpose of GetApplicationTextEncoding() is to provide
functional compatibility with OS 9-era localization resources such as
STR#.
There really shouldn't be any need to make your app rely on the single
script approach even for a modern CFString-based Carbon apps.
For Cocoa apps, you shouldn't have to even bother with localization-
specific string encodings.
If you have any need to store text data by yourself, UTF-16 is the
recommended storage encoding on Mac OS X.
If the file format requires to be a superset of ASCII, you can use
UTF-8 as Mike described.
Aki
On 2008/11/21, at 7:27, Michael Ash wrote:
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 4:42 AM, spsaxena <email@hidden>
wrote:
Hi all,
I am working on making my application carbon free. I could not find
any
replacement for the API "GetApplicationTextEncoding" probably
because this
API has not been marked as deprecated yet. Because of this API I
need to
link with the carbon framework which I don't want. Can you please
suggest
any non-carbon API as a replacement for this API.
May I suggest simply removing it and *not* replacing it?
Language-specific text encodings are evil. Sometimes you have to deal
with them, of course. But if you do, then you should already know what
encoding you're dealing with and shouldn't need an API to give you an
"application" encoding. For places where you are able to choose the
encoding, UTF-8 is the only reasonable ASCII-compatible encoding to
use.
Mike
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