Re: Please test UTF-8 support in revised SVG driver

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> This weekend I decided to sit down and try to understand how utf-8
> encoded works.  Afterwards I modified the svg terminal driver
> to re-encode utf-8 strings as escaped Unicode hex constants. This
> makes it work properly on my machine using either firefox or
> konqueror, whereas without re-encoding it worked only partially.

I've tried it with a Czech text like
 =09P=F8=EDli=B9 =BElu=BBou=E8k=FD k=F9=F2 =FAp=ECl =EF=E1belsk=E9 =F3dy.
It works with "set encoding default" and the text written in UTF-8. For "se=
t=20
encoding iso8859_2" and the text in that encoding, it gets displayed wrong.=
=20
So you reencoding is wrong. And, how is it supposed to work on Windows=20
with cp1250 encoding?

I think your patch should work only for the default encoding or "set=20
encoding utf8" (to be added), otherwise it should not do any &#xxxx;=20
changes.

Well, I wonder why it is not enough to have
   <?xml version=3D"1.0" encoding=3D"utf-8"  standalone=3D"no"?>
   <?xml version=3D"1.0" encoding=3D"iso-8859-2"  standalone=3D"no"?>
as the first line of the output file? Why it does not work for you and=20
UTF-8? If I do so, and having Czech text in those encodings, the text=20
appears correctly in both Firefox 1.5.0.7 and Konqueror 3.5.2.

Thus, I don't see any advantage of the reencoding. I prefer to keep the tex=
t=20
as-written.

If you need it, then I propose to force it by an option to "set term svg".

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