RE: Character set in Carbon
RE: Character set in Carbon
- Subject: RE: Character set in Carbon
- From: "Dieter Oberkofler" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 17:05:54 +0200
Hi Mike,
Thank you for your feedback!
I'm using a 3rd party cross platform library (XVT by Providence Software)
for the user interface of our application.
As database we use Oracle that we access using Oracle's C Interface callee
OCI.
Until OSX, the character used in uir GUI and the one of our database client
was always MacRoman8 or WE8MACROMAN8 as called by Oracle but now according
to Oracle WE8MACROMAL8 should no longer be used under OSX. I wanted to find
out what exact character set the XVT library based on Carbon is using to
make sure what character set we should use.
I there a way to ask a Carbon application what character set is currently
using? (Something like "GetCurrentlyUsedCharacterSet" returning UTF8,
MacRoman8 or WE8ISO8859,...)
Cheers,
-Dieter
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Fischer [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 4:51 PM
To: email@hidden
Cc: Dieter Oberkofler
Subject: Re: Character set in Carbon
Hi Dieter,
Am 30.05.2005 um 15:01 schrieb "Dieter Oberkofler"
<email@hidden>:
> Is it possible to query a carbon based application what character set
> (encoding) the applicatuon is using?
What do you mean by this? Are you trying to find out what encoding the
source code was using? Or are you trying to query some runtime attribute?
The former might differ from file to file.
If you mean the later then
a) this is the wrong list, try Carbon DEV instead and
b) an application does not inherently use any one character set encoding. It
is possible that certain UI elements or internal processing routines set or
make assumptions about a character set encoding but this would not imply
that the whole app must "use"
(whatever that may mean) only one. Generally modern Mac OS X applications
use Unicode for most things. See CFString et al.
HTH
Mike
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