Re: using charles library

[Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>]

Roman V. Isaev wrote:
>    Windows Gtk is horrible. But unix version feels laggy too, especially 
> compared with programs written with Athena, wxWindows and even qt.

Huh? wxWindows and qt are sluggish compared to Gtk. By the way what
distribution do you use?

>    .mo format has no indication wheter it UTF-8 or no. Just a translation
> table for byte sequences. .po editors don't know about UTF-8 either, at 
> least poEdit by Vaclav Slavik doesn't, another editor in X11 (on freebsd
> if i remember correctly) did not too. If UTF-8 strings are kept in the same 
> String type as usual strings then it's not a problem. If UTF-8 strings are 
> kept in special string type than I have to know how to convert that type
> into character sequence...

Point is that UTF-8 will be more or less standard in most applications
soon. Gtk+ 2.x uses it as a default and expect UTF-8 valid strings.

>    Because it's really annoying when you start using some library and it
> requires another one, you go search for it the net only to find
> it discontinued... and you are lucky if that old version is still 
> available somewhere (i.e. you use want to some library and it depends 
> on gd, but you find that gd author dropped gif support several years ago,
> his site says basically "get lost if you want gif support" and this 
> library have to work with gifs).

So in stead on should reinvent the wheel for every project? Charles is
GMGPL so if it is discontinued it is just to pick it up and continue the
development. I cannot start making my own binding to Gtk+, because I
might fear that it will stop being developed.

> But as I said it's a question of maintainig this code and I can't do that 
> because I don't know math that well and my father won't learn another 
> language (he did not really learn pascal anyway) :)

Perhaps better to get the maths written down into a paper?

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Preben Randhol                    http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/