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handling both latin-1 and utf-8 files [message #898707]

Fri, 27 July 2012 05:33

Eclipse User

Hi!

My language files are encoded as Latin-1, but since the compiler's parser accepts anything inside comments and strings, many people in china and Russia and elsewhere use utf-8 in those places.

I did some quick tests and it looks like Xtext can handle those. Are there any hidden traps here?

best regards,
Vlad

Re: handling both latin-1 and utf-8 files [message #899013 is a reply to message #898707]

Mon, 30 July 2012 03:37

Eclipse User

Hi Vlad,

Xtext can handle all encodings quite well (see IEncodingProvider). Of
course, you cannot mix encodings in the same file.

Regards,
Sebastian
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Am 27.07.12 11:33, schrieb Vlad Dumitrescu:
> Hi!
>
> My language files are encoded as Latin-1, but since the compiler's
> parser accepts anything inside comments and strings, many people in
> china and Russia and elsewhere use utf-8 in those places.
> I did some quick tests and it looks like Xtext can handle those. Are
> there any hidden traps here?
> best regards,
> Vlad
>

Re: handling both latin-1 and utf-8 files [message #899017 is a reply to message #899013]

Mon, 30 July 2012 03:49

Eclipse User

Thank you, Sebastian.

What I meant was - with an infrastructure generated for a Latin-1 encoding, does it work to handle utf-8 files too, given the restriction that non-ascii characters are only found in comments and strings?

regards,
Vlad

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