Re: Question about unicode support...

[salvador <sal...@in...>]

Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 03:55:29PM -0300, salvador wrote:
> > What kind of recodes? you mean like PC850->ISO-8859-1?
> > Perhaps an sLisp command (RecodeBuffer from to)?
>
> I would use it if there was utf8.

Ok, will see.
Do you know about simple UTF8<->16 bits conversion routines?
Perhaps Allegro code ...

> BTW, what's that lemur thing?

A nice project Enlisniss did for the editor, it can be used to look-up fu=
nction
prototypes or choose the member of a structure "on the fly", it uses gcc =
to
preprocess the code. Isn't ultra fast but is usable.

> > You can do it with sLisp, you have GetSelection and you have RunProgr=
am.
>
> Hmmm... I somehow doubt it. First, if I use the "Test RunProgram" slisp=

> example and type "cat /home/gregorio/macros.slp", I see a few lines in =
the
> message window about running commands but nothing happens. Where's the
> output of cat?

I must check, perhaps something is broken.

> Second, you cannot pipe GetSelection to the RunProgram, which is necess=
ary,
> because I don't see a way to create temporary files in slisp (though I =
am
> new at this). My proposed example tries to run Allegro's textconv tool,=

> which converts stdin to stdout:
>
> (defmacro '_Prueba'
>  (eval
>   (InsertText (RunProgramRedir (+ "textconv -ia -ou " (GetSelection))))=

>  )
> )
>
> Now, the editor freezes and if I run ps ux I see that GetSelection is g=
iven
> as an additional parameter to textconv, which is not desired. AFAICS yo=
u
> cannot create a temporary file, put GetSelection in it, run the command=
,
> get the text from the output file, delete both temporary files and repl=
ace
> the selection in the editor with the new output. Meaning that I am stuc=
k with
> the external utf8 wrapper.

Will see.

> > > Remember SET when I suggested about a combo-key which would word wr=
ap
> > > some lines of text, usually in email posts like this one?
> >
> > Maybe, but please first check the available options. I can add more, =
but only
> > if necesary.
>
> I only see this wordwrap option which works when I type. Is there any o=
ther
> available option to reformat a selection in the editor?

Nope.

> > Now another detail:
> > I have in my todo the following: Add import/export in UNICODE/UTF-8 f=
ormat. So
> > you could import an UTF-8 file and then export it to UTF-8, not as co=
mfortable
> > as a transparent Load/Save but quite useful I think.
>
> Maybe you could automate the import/export when the filename contains '=
=2Eutf8',
> something quite standard to use. Anyway, what would you do with the non=
-viewable
> characters? That's why I wanted to pipe selection to an external progra=
m, this
> program would transform such characters to "\unumber" string, so that a=

> reconversion would recover them.

You shouldn't edit files that aren't really supported by your code page.
But I can do the same you say ;-), what's the exact format? \u224 =3D=3D =
=E1?

> PD: Resist the temptation to send me copies of your mailing list answer=
s :)

Ok.

SET

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