Re: lynx-dev Emacs + UTF-8 + Lynx

[Klaus Weide]

On Sun, 28 May 2000, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 07:47:54PM -0500, Klaus Weide wrote:
> 
> > .... I.e. clearok() and refresh() often.  ...
> 
> ...or use a screen library that knows where to start updating.

Of course.  In an ideal worls, every display library would be
UTF-8 aware.

> (I'll take a look on the next patch to see if it would be simple
> to make lynx use my experimental UTF-8 driver).

In an ideal world, UTF-8 capable versions of curses and slang
would be interface-compatible with previous versions.

(Feed C strings to addstr and friends as before - just that now they're
understood as UTF-8, so there must be sone switch to tell the lib -
don't require app to use any wide char functions.)

> The same scheme
> could be used to make drivers for other 16-bit character sets.

What is a 'driver', in this sense?

I haven't looked at your new ncurses code (and it seemed you
don't really encourage using it, at this point).

   Klaus


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