[PD] What about multilingual Pd ?

[geiger]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, vincent rioux wrote:
> > i really love utf (far better than iso-8859 and the like), but outside
> > OpenOffice it is still often unusable (at least on linux; i recon that
> > w32 works fine with utf8 and osX might do as well)
> >
> > mfg.asdr.
> > IOhannes
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> ok, then i totally agree with you,
> the tricky part being
> /can unicode strings be integrated into a .pd (text file) relatively
> simply even if not directly editable with usual text editors? /
> after all, unicode characters can be represented by escape codes (ascii
> characters preceded by \), isnt' it?
>
> by the way i would be interested to know how many people are editing
> their patchs without the patch/cord gui and for what reasons?
> for my part, i do it very seldom, only when i need to correct a patch
> that cannot be opened any more.


An easy thing that one can do is replacing the "isprint(n)"
by "n > 31"  in g_rtext.c and then recompile pd. On linux this produces
extended ascii characters.
Don' t know what it does on windows and OSX, maybe someone is willing to
try.

Günter


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