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copperspice / doxypress

Documentation generator using annotated sources for multiple computer languages
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Are East Asian languages supported as input file encodings? #48

Closed udaken closed 2 years ago

udaken commented 2 years ago

I have specified Shift-JIS for the input file language in the project file. (just like doxygen).

"input-encoding": "Shift-JIS",

When I run doxypress, I get corrupted documents and the following error

Error: Unsupported character encoding: 'Shift-JIS'

udaken commented 2 years ago

Qt requires a static plugin to use East Asian languages (cn/jp/kr/tw), but Doxypress does not seem to have one built in. Am I thinking right?

bgeller commented 2 years ago

East Asian languages are fully supported in our CopperSpice QString classes using the UTF-8 encoding. This is the preferred encoding for all languages and most of the Internet. We understand you may have files in a legacy encoding. Have you considered upgrading to UTF-8 for your documentation and source code. If so, we can give you some ideas about how to do this.

Shift-JIS is a different encoding unique to Japan. The way they support this encoding is by using a Text Codec to convert back and forth between Shift-JIS and Unicode. It was added to a plugin since the size of the conversion tables are extremely large.

Adding this plugin is something we could consider however it is not a high priority at this time since none of the clients on our paid support subscription have requested this feature.

Barbara

udaken commented 2 years ago

I agree that using UTF-8 is a modern choice. Unfortunately, the codebase and toolset I have is more than 10 years old and will not compile if I use UTF-8.

I understand that I need to fork to solve my problem.

Thanks.

agserm commented 2 years ago

We're looking forward to your changes to CopperSpice and DoxyPress. Please feel free to submit a pull request and we will be happy to maintain this feature for you.