Re: Encoding is totally broken.

From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 22:35:51 EDT

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    There is some magic use of UCS-2-INTERNAL which I
    wouldn't be surprised to find oddness in.
    Try making a libiconv build and compare.

    Andrew.

     --- Martin Sevior <msevior@tauon.ph.unimelb.EDU.AU>
    wrote: > Hi Folks,
    > On my RedHat 8 laptop with current CVS I find that
    > that UTF8
    > encoding is totally borken.
    >
    > I put in a debug print in gr_UnixGRaphics:drawChars
    > to find out what is
    > happening.
    >
    > When I type 'fred' into an empty abiword I get...
    > 1711276032 1912602624 1694498816 1677721600
    >
    > from this code...
    > void GR_UnixGraphics::drawChars(const UT_UCSChar*
    > pChars, int iCharOffset,
    > int iLength, UT_sint32 xoff, UT_sint32
    > yoff,
    > int * pCharWidths)
    > {
    > _UUD(xoff);
    > _UUD(yoff);
    > //
    > // FIXME REMOVE THIS CODE!!!
    > //
    > UT_sint32 i =0;
    > for(i=0; i< iLength;i++)
    > {
    > printf("%c",(char) (pChars[i +iCharOffset] &
    > 127));
    > }
    > printf("\n");
    > for(i=0; i< iLength;i++)
    > {
    > printf("%d ",pChars[i +iCharOffset]);
    > }
    > printf("\n");
    >
    > It looks like the little/endian big endian stuff is
    > wrong. Maybe this
    > happened from one of our PPC developers not noticing
    > something.
    >
    > Just a guess.
    >
    > Anyway, could people into encoding please look at
    > this?
    >
    > Thanks!
    >
    > Martin
    >
    >

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