[PD] What about multilingual Pd ?

[Max Neupert]

>>>
>>> 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.
>

can hardly wait for it. comments in extended ascii are a big first  
step.