[PD] Re: [PD-announce] Pd-0.38.4-extended-RC6 release - int character in canonical

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 20, 2005, at 5:06 AM, João Miguel Pais wrote:

>> * Preliminary international character support. It seems to work fine  
>> in comments, not yet in objects and messages.
>
> will this be a part of the canonical version soon? maybe it isn't as  
> important as 64bit support or something else, but it will be strange  
> when the patches from different versions will show up different - by  
> comments it is relatively harmless, but when an object/message called  
> "après" or "verzögerung" is there, the patch will work only on one  
> version.

That's ultimately up to Miller, but this is a good first step.  If it  
works fine, then its much more likely to be included.  This is a quick  
hack, there is a probably a better way to do it, if anyone wants to  
try.

Personally, I think the best implementation of this would be a  
[comment] object with i18n support, so that all of the comments could  
be internationalized, but the patches would remain the same.

.hc

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