[PD] What about multilingual Pd ?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 13, 2005, at 10:37 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

>
> 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?

So far no crashes, tho once I typed a character and it hung for a few  
seconds, and then recovered and typed an empty box.  Hmm

Here's a little snapshop of the test:

http://eds.org/~hans/Pu%cc%88reDa%cc%88ta%cc%88.pdf

Comments work fine, you can type special characters into object boxes,  
but you can't load objects or abstractions using special characters.   
And [print] replaces them with a ?.

I am going to include this in the next Pd-extended, we'll see then what  
the problems are.

.hc

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