UTF-8 in editor
lazarus / 6-IDE-CodeTools

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chapaev · 2005-10-14 23:37

Hello 2 all!
1st of all, thanx for lazarus - nice tool
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Here is questions:
1st - can i use another editor in lazarus, i.e. kate or vi?
2nd - why in lazarus editor i cant use UTF-8 characters?

please help

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felipemdc · 2005-10-15 02:28

1 - Yes you can. Just remember to save the source file in utf-8. This
is because free pascal compiler (and lazarus) likes utf-8.

2 - It can use utf-8 characters, or at least should. What it currently
can´t do is recognize "Key Combos". For instance ´ + A will appear as
´A instead of Á ... this is a recognized bug, is already on the Bug
Tracker and will be solved on the future. This bug is only existent on
gtk. Lazarus for Windows supports key combos.

What language are you trying to type in? Can you explain better the
2nd question?

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Anonymous · 2005-10-24 19:07

about question2
I'm writing in russian, but i see nothing in code editor, the symbol
in russian i type, just splash in code, then disappear
btw, if i try to write,
label1.caption:='ФЫВА ЮАЛ';
and try to comile project, on running form I see only empty label
caption.
and i see nothing russian text in source editor
All (lazarus 0.9.10 and project) are compiled with gtk2
AFAIR, gtk-1 doesn't support unicode. and i don't like to use gtk1
btw, here is error messages from console
(lazarus:3568): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to
pango_layout_set_text()

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felipemdc · 2005-10-25 00:10

Why don´t you submit this as a bug report on Mantis??

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Anonymous · 2005-10-25 21:07

just because I dont know, hot 2 do that

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Marc · 2005-10-26 10:02

Go to the "Bug Tracking" link on the left side