[omniORB] UTF8

[Duncan Grisby]

On Thursday 16 November, Marcus.Bullingham@aculab.com wrote:

> I know that omniORB 3.0 doesn't yet support wide strings (wstring), but does
> its basic string (string) and the C++ mapping correctly handle UTF8 encoded
> strings?

No. At present omniORB only supports GIOP 1.0, so it is only able to
transmit ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1). We are currently working on a version
which supports GIOP 1.2, and the full string and wstring code set
negotiation. That won't be available for a good few months yet,
though.

Since there is no code set negotiation at the moment, you can actually
send UTF-8 as a string between two omniORB instances, and the data
will get through unharmed. That doesn't help if you need to talk to a
different ORB, though.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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