On Oct 17, 2007, at 6:05 , Andreas Raab wrote:

> Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
>>>>   The same goes for the Unix VM.  I cannot seem to get a string  
>>>> with
>>>> "3.9-12" or such.  How about if we define system attribute 1007  
>>>> for a
>>>> "real VM version" (equivalent of VM_VERSION macro for Windows)?
>>> Why not let the VM return the encoding string from a system  
>>> attribute?
>>   Oh yeah, I now remember that.  We can define four different
>> primitives (keyboard, clip board, file path name, and preferred file
>> contents).  Having the VM version is sometimes useful, though.
>
> To which the answers would be: UTF-8, UTF-8, UTF-8 and, err,  
> UTF-8 ;-) (Seriously, I fail to see the need for four different  
> primitives given that UTF-8 is so prevalent today and has easy  
> conversions on every known platform under the sun)

I don't need more than one for OLPC. The keyboard thing is solved by  
the utf32 charcode field in keyboard events. Clipboard has a new  
plugin anyway. File path encoding is the only one remaining, because  
"preferred file contents" is of questionable utility.

But, the Asian folks used to violently disagree, and adding multiple  
sys attribs is cheap. Yoshiki, can you explain again why we need  
everything separately?

- Bert -