Re: Fribidi 2.0 Status?

"Nadav Har'El" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.internationalization.fribidi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "Re: [FriBidi] Fribidi 2.0 Status?":
> I'll mention that the Wine project is literally eager to dump the
> current solution in favor of Fribidi, as soon as it is supporting UTF-16.

In hope of not making an ass of myself...

Isn't the conversion of UTF-16 into UTF-8 a straightforward one? Why can't
the Wine code convert the strings into UTF-8 just before calling Fribidi,
instead of Fribidi having to contain that code?

By the way, I'm curious: Does Windows actually support UTF-16, or just
UCS-2 (i.e., only the first 65536 characters of Unicode)?

P.S. The signature on the bottom was randomly chosen. I swear!

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