32-bit UT_UCSChar (2)

From: Tomas Frydrych (tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net)
Date: Thu May 02 2002 - 03:52:24 EDT

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    I cannot recall if I sent a message about this to the list or not ...

    I am working on the 32-bit UT_UCSChar, and should have it
    finished over the weekend, when I plan to commit this (unless there
    are serious objections).

    There will be two main changes: (1) change of the definition of of
    UT_UCSChar to 'unsigned int'; (2) I will add a new type
    UT_GrowBufElement == 'int'. The latter type will be used by the
    UT_GrowBuffer class. The reason for this is that in the current
    implementation the grow buffer is used both for storing
    UT_UCSChar strings and character width strings, currently
    UT_uint16; in order for this to work the width will have to be also 32-
    bit ints (and becase Pango provides widths as signed ints, I want
    them stored as 3-bit ints anyway).

    This means for all platforms the methods in the graphics classes
    which use character widths will need change from UT_uint16 to
    UT_GrowBufElement. I will do win32 and, possibly, Unix. Apart
    from this, there might be other occassional changes where
    UT_uint16 was used when UT_UCSChar should have been; I found
    one instance on win32 so far.

    The other issue which will need addressing is the interface to the
    native text drawing calls, such as on win32 which only uses 2-byte
    characters.

    Tomas



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