[PD] What about multilingual Pd ?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 12, 2005, at 10:44 AM, Piotr Majdak wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Max Neupert wrote:
>
>> I kind of agree. but on the other hand it really sucks to make non   
>> english tutorials/workshops since the comments don't accept other   
>> than english chars.
>
> Yes, it's very difficult to explain new pd-users why the character set  
> of my Commodore 64 was bigger than in pd ;-)
>
> I think this part of pd is very, very out-of-date and pd should  
> support blanks, backslashes, (please!) escape codes and other chars  
> than english. I know that this issue was very often discussed here and  
> I know there is a solution for that. Could a developer comment this?  
> Should we  vote for that?

If you want it to happen, pay someone to do it.  Then it'll happen.  I  
don't think anyone is opposed to having this in Pd, just no one has the  
time to do it.

.hc

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