[omniORB] Reserved word "factory"? / Wide strings

[Randy Wiser]

With the upcoming release of a version of Python with unicode support, we are becoming more interested in omniORB/omniORBpy support for wchar (and wstring).

1) Is there a reasonable chance of unicode support happening before the end of this year? :-)

I'm _guessing_ that the 'code set conversion issues' have to do with wstring and wchar constants.

2) Has anyone done a patch to omniORB 3.0 / omniORBpy 1.0 to allow simply passing wstring and wchar (we may not need wchar or wstring constants)?

3) Or, should we try 'sequence of <some 16 bit type>' as a work around until unicode support is available?

Thanks,

- Randy

At 03:36 PM 03/10/2000 +0000, Duncan Grisby wrote:
>On Thursday 9 March, Markus Redeker wrote:
>
> > Do you know where the CORBA 2.3 specification can be found? It must be
> > somewhere on the OMG web site, but searching there for it will be difficult.
>
>See http://www.omg.org/library/c2indx.html
>
> > > omniORB does not yet support wstring. No version ever has.
> > 
> > Do you plan to introduce wstrings in the near future?
>
>It depends what you mean by "near"!  We will support wchar and
>wstring, but it is likely to be a while. Supporting them is far from
>easy since there are all sorts of code set conversion issues.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Duncan.
>
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