[Perl-pad-users] PerlPad Unicode "Fix"

[Thilo P. <thi...@us...>]

Hi,

Unicode support in PerlPad is non-existent, and at the moment there is 
not much I can do about it (short of hacking CamelBones).
For now, you can only use text in your current default C encoding 
(which is Mac OS Roman for me).

When you use Unicode characters in the System Services, nothing 
happens: no result, no errors, no warnings.
This bugged me a lot when I edited some Japanese text today, so I 
updated PerlPad to at least make a warning about not being able to 
handle the characters, replace them with question marks and proceed.
Users will now have an idea what is the problem and maybe the results 
are still useful.

When you try to display Unicode anywhere inside the PerlPad 
application, it will crash miserably.
This is a known CB problem and I cannot fix it.

I hope Apple will upgrade to Perl 5.8 (with full Unicode support) and 
CamelBones 0.3 will also be released one day....

If you want to test the version with the "fix" mentioned above, 
download it here:

curl -O http://perl-pad.sourceforge.net/PerlPadUnicodeFix.dmg

Cheers,

Thilo