[PD] What about multilingual Pd ?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 14, 2005, at 6:43 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> Font-loading sometimes takes time, especially japanese/chinese/korean
> fonts, but also unicode fonts, and antialiased fonts.
>
>> Comments work fine, you can type special characters into object boxes,
>> but you can't load objects or abstractions using special characters.
>
> There might be a mismatch of charsets. What's the charset of your
> filesystem?

Mac OS X = UTF-8

>> And [print] replaces them with a ?.
>
> That's one kind of mismatch of charsets: the one you use in pd is most
> likely utf-8, and the one you use in the Terminal is most likely
> iso-8859-1 (Latin1) or ascii-7. I usually have to change it the other  
> way
> around, because I SSH from Unicode-configured Macs into a linux server
> configured as Latin1.

Yup, and endless annoyance.

.hc
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