[PD] object to get pdversion/tclversion/basedir

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 10:40 -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> 
> > How did you get the umlaute and accents into the message box? I tried 
> > cutting and pasting from firefox but it made the text turn completely 
> > blank (and would turn back to normal once I deleted the offending 
> > character).
> 
> Tk apparently doesn't support character set conversion out of the box. 
> However, for just typing at the keyboard, GridFlow is supposed to be 
> assisting you so that you can type directly in GridFlow. It's since 0.9.6 
> or 0.9.7...
> 
> and starting with GF 9.12, this is a separate external that you can remove 
> from GF, or even load separately like « -lib gridflow_unicorn ».

Pd 0.43 supports UTF-8 typing directly.

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