Subj : UTF-8 question
To   : mark lewis
From : August Abolins
Date : Wed Jan 01 2020 11:28:00

Hello mark!

** 01.01.20 - 08:35, mark lewis wrote to August Abolins:

 >> .. I thought Lucinda Console font would solve all the problems, but it
 >> does not.

 ml>remember that a lot of fonts still have only 256 slots in them... some
 ml>few have  65535 slots and can hold a lot more character glyphs that
 ml>the 256 slotted ones... the full UTF-8 character set contains
 ml>2,097,152 characters and that may  not even be everything...


Thanks for the stackoverflow and wikipedia links.


 ml>hope this helps some...

Yes, it does!  The whole science/math behind font sets impresses me.

Having worked briefly on coding for UI for custom displays in the past was  
a lot of fun. At that time I had specific sets of pre-designed elements  
and rules to follow and could even design my own chars.

In the case of Win32/DOS based OpenXP, the limitation is the existing font  
set: Lucida Console.  Lucida Console "supports" many of the extended chars  
and some foreign language chars.  But OpenXP adds further limitations. :(

OpenXP adds a CHARset kludge: ASCII 1, US-ASCII, IBMPC 2, ..but it seems  
to select each one automatically based on content it detects.  ???

It can be configured to interpret a subset of UTF-8 on incoming messages,  
but it never generates the UTF-8 kludge for outgoing messages/replies to  
match.

OpenXP allows launching an external editor. Maybe I can explore its UTF-8  
support with the famous multi-charset GoatEd (now gossiped?) or something.  
Is there a ready-made win32 version of it?

I like the way Thunderbird can be configured to use a specific charset (it  
uses the term "character encoding"). There, the UTF-8 setting covers a  
broad range of characters for proper display.

Take care.. Have a great day!


  ../|ug

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