>>>>> "PG" == Paul Gevers <elb...@debian.org> writes:
PG> On 20-05-14 17:01, Milan Zamazal wrote:
>> In theory, it's possible to implement the support for a given
>> language in UTF-8 (some Indian languages do that), but it's
>> cumbersome as all the UTF handling must be done manually, without
>> any support from Festival.
PG> I don't understand your remark. Why would UTF-8 to ISO-8859-X be
PG> any more easy than ISO-8859-X to UTF-8?
The text processing part of a language support in Festival processes
text input. The easiest way to implement the processing is to use 8-bit
(single byte) input coding. Using multibyte characters within Festival
is like using them in old C without wchar etc., i.e. something nobody
does unless really needed. So in order to use UTF-8 input directly
instead of some 8-bit coding, one would probably implement something
like UTF-8 -> 8-bit coding conversion in the Festival language pack,
which makes little sense when better and working conversion tools (such
as iconv) are already available.
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