[Freeciv-Dev] Re: inexplicable generate_packets error

[Raimar Falke <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 02:10:03AM -0400, Jason Dorje Short wrote:
> >>And realize these string types are fundamentally different.  Someday the 
> >>TEXT packets could use UTF-16.  But the ASCII packets will always be 
> >>ascii.
> >
> >
> >I don't see the problem handling both types the same way. I.e. you
> >wrap your ascii strings in UTF-16 and dewrap them at the receiving
> >side.
> 
> But how do you know which are which?

A assume that the internal encoding for the server is known and may be
different to the network encoding. So you have to convert both types
anyway.

> And why do you want to turn ascii into utf-16 and double the network 
> packet size?

Because it is better for the maintainability that you only have one
type. It may be better to use utf-8 for the network. Tests have to
done.

        Raimar

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