Subj : Re: Need volonteers to test another patch
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Vitaliy Aksyonov
Date : Tue Mar 12 2024 07:32 pm

Hello Nicholas.

10 Mar 24 14:56, you wrote to me:

 VA>> Golded cannot read from UTF-8. There is no Unicode support. You
 VA>> must use another editor or GoldEd with external editor to work
 VA>> with Unicode.

 VA>> It may convert from one-byte charsets to UTF-8, but not vise
 VA>> versa.

 NB> We know it is unsupported, but I'm pretty sure I've said multiple
 NB> times it can display in Golded just fine, with CHRS kludge, UTF-8
 NB> Cyrillic characters (MANY other characters display fine, also):

 NB> https://pharcyde.org/golded-utf8.png

We're trying to find, what could be wrong in GoldEd using ncurses. And it 
reproduces, so probably we'll find some solution.

 NB> It indeed can be done. The problem is everyone's terminals and what
 NB> else is being used to run golded is different in every case.

I know. But there are many other problems, not just displaying unicode symbols, 
but also splitting long paragraphs of non-english letters. They may be 2-4 
bytes long in UTF-8 and It will be weird in reader window.

Vitaliy

.... 640K ought to be enough for anybody
--- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20240305-beta
 * Origin: Aurora, Colorado (1:104/117)

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