[PD] OSC strings and Pd symbols

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Mar 21, 2012, at 5:26 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 18:21 -0400, Martin Peach wrote:
>> So I just committed a new [unpackOSC] to svn. 
> 
> Cool!
> 
>> I don't really have a sure 
>> way of generating UTF-8 in Pd so someone with a non-US keyboard will 
>> have to test it. I can do things like the accented e and mu but serious 
>> symbols end up as something like /u123 if I try to paste them into Pd.
> 
> ö ä ü é è à © ▣ ▶ ▦ ◇ ● ñ ♠ 한 국 어 日 本 العربية  বাং ল ިވެހިބަސް 
> 𐌲  ♩ ♨ 
> 
> Those characters seems all to work fine. I can transmit them over OSC
> from Pd to Pd and display them in symbol box and I can also transmit
> them between python-liblo and Pd. It looks all good to me.
> Interestingly, I can also use characters and display them in a symbol
> box that normally are prohibited by Pd: \ { }
> 
> Thanks a lot for this change. I'm all excited about being able to use
> funny symbols for GUI designing ;-)

This sounds like a good change but a risky one.  Since Pd-extended 0.43 is beta, I think it would be best to not include it.  What do you think?

.hc


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