[PD] What about multilingual Pd ?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 13, 2005, at 10:53 AM, geiger wrote:

>
> 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
>>
>> 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.

Works for me on Mac OS X!  Could this simple patch cause any bugs?  Why  
was isprint() there in the first place?

.hc
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