Re: [joe] UTF-8

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Thanks for this.  I just checked in the first version of UTF-8 support for JOE. 
Display works, input is broken (you get control characters displayed until
the full UTF-8 character is entered, then you have to hit refresh screen).
Likely there are many bugs.

Joe keeps the files in UTF-8 format internally.  When UTF-8 mode is enabled,
it will emit UTF-8 characters and keep track of character widths properly.

Basically JOE can now do this:

>I may want to edit a Latin-2 encoded file in a Latin-2 terminal.
-asis mode

>I may want to edit a UTF-8 encoded file in an UTF-8 terminal.
-utf8 mode

But it can not do these, but probably should:

>I may want to edit a UTF-8 encoded file in a Latin-2 terminal. (Some
>  characters might not show up correctly, but those that are part of
>  Latin-2 must be shown properly.)

>I may want to edit a Latin-2 encoded file in an UTF-8 terminal.

I need to research conversion between byte-wide and UTF-8.

Also, JOE can not do this:

>when you save a file you have the choice to choose an encoding (latin-1,
>utf-8 etc.).

It seems like there must be UNIX command line utility which does this?





>bye,
>Egmont

>Ps. Based on your email address, don't you happen to be the original
>author of joe?

Yes I am.