[PD] What about multilingual Pd ?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 14, 2005, at 6:49 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> On Dec 13, 2005, at 10:53 AM, geiger wrote:
>>> 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?
>
> isprint is supposed to be a localized function (man 3 isprint) and by
> default corresponds to
>
> 	n>=32 && n<=126
>
> which corresponds to all of the ascii-7 charset codes (used by the "C"
> locale).
>
> However, is it possible that Tcl implements UTF-8 regardless of the
> charset selected by environment variables?

> And is it possible that charsets that use wide characters are treated
> much differently by isprint and such?

Yes.  iswprint() is for that.

.hc

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