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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/3/2019 11:27 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> On 5/3/19 9:41 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> There is a secondary goal of removing wxWidgets from our low level
>> objects.  Maybe some day we can build the low level KiCad non-ui
>> libraries sans wxWdigets.  My thinking is that wxString should only come
>> into play at the UI level when dealing with wxWidgets UI code.  Being
>> able to use a standard C++ string implementation would (may?) go a long
>> way in helping with that goal.
> 
> That goal is what I had in mind when I wrote the UTF8 class, and its bidirectional
> conversions to and from wxString.  I think you can pass instances of UTF8 to wx functions
> in many cases, and assign to UTF8 on function returns.
> 
> But, you don't have all the nice translation support there.  You could through use wx
> translation support and simply assign to UTF8, however.
> 

I don't think translations are an issue because AFAIK we don't have any
strings in the low level non-ui objects that needs translated but I
could be wrong.