Subj : Re: Changes in golded+ sources
To   : Kai Richter
From : Vitaliy Aksyonov
Date : Tue Nov 07 2023 07:07 am

Hello Kai.

07 Nov 23 04:09, you wrote to me:

 VA>> External editor solves some issues, but not all. Would be cool to
 VA>> have UTF-8 used for internal string representation, but that's
 VA>> huge work.
 KR> So how about the vice versa way? Take a fully utf compatible editor
 KR> and inject goldeds fidonet features into it?

The problem is that not only editor need to be changed, but other places, like address book, nodelist browser, messages list, etc. Also don't forget about unicode input. Most probably it will work fine without changes or with small changes. Need more investigations. :) Iconv change will be the first and most significant change towards unicode support.

Also need to think how to implement similar behavior for other systems which doesn't have iconv. One of the ways to do it - just import iconv library into GoldEd source base and try to compile it in different systems, like OS/2, Windows.

Vitaliy

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