Subj : your external editor test of utf-8
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Wed Apr 23 2014 00:54:02

Hello Maurice,

On Monday April 21 2014 21:48, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>> You could not see my Hebrew characters...

 MK> Yes I can.  However I do lack a decent console font for Hebrew as well
 MK> as some other languages

IOW, you do not see them on your screen as proper Hebrew characters. 

 MK> but that has absolutely nothing to do with limited utf-8 support.

Oh, but it has...

 MK> See below as evidence;

 MvdV>> Hebrew: יש לי סנאים במכנסיים שלי

When I look at them in Golded, I see gibberish. How does that differ from you seeing gibberish or nothing at all when you use your "normal method"?  

 MK> The codes above are verifiable as Hebrew text by http://www.unicode.org/charts/ as 
 MK> well as other sites that post the utf-8 codes.

No argument there, but that is not the point. The same goes for the "garbage" that I see when using Golded without an external editor.

 MK> I can also display them on the terminal using any of the Hebrew fonts

So you can see them when using some external uitility. How is that different from me invoking Notepad as an eternal editor for Golded? Something that you called cheating. It seems to me that you need to do some cheating too, to see the Hebrew text...  

 MK> except they are extremely difficult for me to read given my poor eyesight.

Sad, but irrelevant for the discussion at hand...


Cheers, Michiel

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