Re: LANG: VRML 1.x Binary Format Proposal
Gavin Bell ([email protected])
Tue, 30 May 1995 18:17:42 -0700
On May 30, 5:51pm, Mark Pesce wrote:
> >Extensions are probably rare enough that they should just be represented
in
> >ASCII. Now is probably a good time to start thinking about
> >internationalization, though-- in the Inventor group, we're contemplating
> >changing from a pure 7-bit ASCII format to a UTF8-based 8-bit format. And
> >we'll probably allow node type names, DEF/USE names, string fields--
> >EVERYTHING-- to be UTF8.
>
> This seems reasonable to implement in VRML 1.x; what will change as a
> result?
Suprisingly, very little. A different header plus more robustness in our
parsing code. Some hooks in the Inventor API (irrelevant to VRML) for
dealing with multi-byte streams, plus a lot of work on the Text nodes to
support rendering Unicode characters.
Plus all the things we don't know about yet because we haven't actually done
the work...