Re: [Bug-zile] Adding Unicode support

[Gary V. Vaughan]

On Mar 13, 2014, at 1:46 PM, Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 13 March 2014 00:30, Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Garnaik,
> 
> On Mar 13, 2014, at 9:11 AM, Garnaik Sumeet <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Hello Gary and Reuben Sir,
> >          I kind of overviewed the source of zile and hopefully I have 
> > figured it out on how to add unicode support to zile.
> 
> I have two things to add to Gary's comments:
> 
> 1. I would like to see what types and methods you propose to change; I think 
> that is a more helpful way to think than in terms of files you plan to touch.
> 
> 2. Gary is quite right that you will need to use the wide-character version 
> of curses. This brings up another question: is it best to represent the 
> buffer as wide characters (wchar_t) and translate to/from UTF-8 just for 
> loading/saving? I think so, as otherwise computing offsets within the buffer 
> becomes a bit of a nightmare.

An interesting recent development is that Lua 5.3 (work 2) was released today, 
with basic unicode support.

In the interests of forward compatibility, we might want to compare Roberto's 
unicode API with the starwing utf8 module and see whether it's possible to 
abstract the starwing API in the 5.3 calls...

Garnaik, don't sweat this if you have enough to do already, but if you find it 
interesting, it's certainly worth a look.

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

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