On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, vincent rioux wrote:
i really love utf (far better than iso-8859 and the like), but outside OpenOffice it is still often unusable (at least on linux; i recon that w32 works fine with utf8 and osX might do as well)
mfg.asdr. IOhannes
ok, then i totally agree with you, the tricky part being /can unicode strings be integrated into a .pd (text file) relatively simply even if not directly editable with usual text editors? / after all, unicode characters can be represented by escape codes (ascii characters preceded by ), isnt' it?
by the way i would be interested to know how many people are editing their patchs without the patch/cord gui and for what reasons? for my part, i do it very seldom, only when i need to correct a patch that cannot be opened any more.
An easy thing that one can do is replacing the "isprint(n)" by "n > 31" in g_rtext.c and then recompile pd. On linux this produces extended ascii characters. Don' t know what it does on windows and OSX, maybe someone is willing to try.
Günter
vincent