Unicode-aware text editor; suggestions?
Madison Kelly
linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Fri Apr 22 14:47:45 UTC 2005
John Vetterli wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Madison Kelly wrote:
>
>> ...
>> I've started using unicode (french symbols and Japanese kana/kanji
>> characters) in my program (I'm working on the translation code). I
>> very quickly found that nedit will show anything other than ASCII as
>> garbage. Gedit will display the characters but as often as not I get
>> an error when trying to save files with international characters in it.
>> ...
>
>
> Just out of curiosity, what locale settings are you using when you run
> gedit? If you change things to use utf-8, (e.g. export
> LANG=en_CA.UTF-8), does gedit save the international characters properly?
>
> I ask because glib (used be gedit) likes to convert its data to the
> locale's character set when writing to a file, so even though it could
> handle international characters internally, if your locale's character
> set is (for example) iso-8859-1, and characters that don't exist in
> iso-8859-1 will cause problems. So I'm guessing that changing the
> locale to use utf-8 would solve your problem.
>
> HTH
> JV
I just installed FC4test2 (which doesn't come with nedit, hence my
motivation to find something new) and it's shell is set to
[madison at akane cgi-bin]$ echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8
Out of curiosity now I will reinstall nedit from source and see how it
treats kana/kanji/french characters now. I wish I had thought to check
it before re-installing. On my FC3 server though the character set is
also 'en_CA.UTF-8' so I imagine that is what it was before.
Thanks for the tip, I'll keep you (and the list) posted.
Madison
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