[BRLTTY] Low-level BrlAPI questions

[Sébastien Hinderer]

Dave Mielke (2021/04/15 06:40 -0400):
> [quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2021/04/15 at 12:24 +0200]
> 
> >> But this function cannot be called safely from languages that are Unicode
> >> only.
> >
> >As mentioned previously, we can add a brlapi_writeUtf8Text, just like we
> >already have brlapi_writeWText
> 
> If my understanding is correct, an unassigned text size means to call
> strlen(). To me, this is a bug. I think we shouldn't be in the
> business of ever assuming a single-byte character set these days. Of
> course there's old code, but it isn't a good thing to be allowing
> anymore. My personal opinion is that writeText() should be assuming
> UTF-8.

I'm guessing that this wouln't be backward compatible, meanign we would
have to increase protocol and ABI versions, should we want to go that
way.

Sébastien.