Re: character converter (Re: current work)

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Aaron" == Aaron M Renn <address@hidden> writes:

Aaron> We should probably ensure that there is a common mechanism
Aaron> going forward so that we don't end up with rework.  I'm
Aaron> particularly interested to see how the framework will handle
Aaron> complex character sets.

I agree.  This is a tricky area though, and the libgcj code is
undergoing some discussion.  For instance we discovered that the
String(byte[]) constructor was creating too much garbage if you
converted a large number of strings.  That's because it was creating a
new converter for each string.  So now we're looking at a way to reuse
converters (the patch isn't in yet but probably will be soon).

Takashi> Well, I want to add other japanese encodings like EUC-JP
Takashi> ,Shift_JIS... Does anyone implement them? If not, I would try
Takashi> that.

libgcj has converters for a few Japanese encodings.  If the character
set interface were unified then Classpath could simply use these.
Note that this isn't a trivial amount of work.

Tom