Re: helios textpad and unicode

Hello Tex,

This is interesting. It seems to me that it is too complicated
to describe to include this editor in our FAQ/whatever. If it's
already listed, we should probably remove it. Once
they switch to Unicode internally, that may change.

Regards,   Martin.


At 17:56 03/11/11 -0500, Tex Texin wrote:

>from helios support
>=====================
>Hello Tex,
>
>Here is a brief explanation of how TextPad currently deals with UTF-8.
>
>TextPad does a statistical analysis of files as it opens them, to
>check if they are UTF-8. Unless a file contains two or more characters
>of UTF-8 sequences, it must start with the Unicode signature, to be
>correctly recognised.
>
>If there is 32kb of text before any UTF-8 sequences, then the file
>will not be recognized as UTF-8.
>
>We will enhance a future version of TextPad to recognise the XML
>header "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>".
>
>Please also see the information on working with Unicode files, which is
>available
>from the Help menu as follows:
>
> >From the Help menu choose:
>
>1. Help Topics
>2. Contents
>3. Plus sign next to "How to"
>4. Plus sign next to "Work with Files"
>5. Unicode Files
>==============================================
>thanks, why don't you follow the encoding in the open dialog? Or allow some
>other override? It's very frustrating to specify utf-8 on the open and still
>get told the file needs to be converted to 1252.
>
>Also, do you support all of unicode or just a subset of the characters? For
>example I am working with hebrew and arabic data and it hasnt been working
>yet.
>
>I am on a mailing list with a group of internationalization developers and
>will be copying this and your next answer to the list. thanks tex
>================================================
>
>Hello Tex,
>
>On each of the Document class options Preference pages, there is an option
>to specify UTF-8 as the default encoding, and also to write the Unicode and
>UTF-8 BOM.
>
>In order to edit another language such as Hebrew or Arabic in TextPad, you
>will need to implement the following procedure to install the appropriate
>fonts:
>
> >From the Start menu choose:
>
>1. Control panel
>2. Regional and language options
>3. Languages
>4. Check the first option on "Supplemental language support"
>5. Click Apply/OK
>
>It may be necessary to restart your computer.
>
>You should now be able to choose an appropriate font and script in TextPad.
>
>However, as TextPad odes not have full support for Unicode, please take note
>of the following extract, taken from the help files:
>
>"TextPad automatically detects 16-bit Unicode and UTF-8 encoded characters,
>when opening files. Unicode characters may be in "little endian" (Intel) or
>"big endian" (RISC) order, and the order is preserved when a file is saved.
>
>Internally, these files are converted to single or double byte characters
>(DBCS), using the locale corresponding to the font script selected for the
>document class. For example, if the screen font for the Text document class
>is MS Mincho, with the script set to Japanese, Unicode characters in *.TXT
>files will be converted to the corresponding DBCS characters in code page
>932.
>
>WARNING: This means that it is only possible to edit, without data loss,
>files containing characters from the implied code page. Other characters
>will be converted into a system default character (normally "?"), if you
>confirm that is what you want to do."
>======================================
>thanks for your answers.
>
>I don't want to change my default encoding as not all my files are unicode.
>I want to be able to select according to the need...
>
>When will textpad be fully unicode internally?
>======================================
>We are currently working on TextPad 5, which will have full Unicode support.
>It's still fairly early days, so you will need to be patient.
>
>
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Received on Thursday, 13 November 2003 06:32:14 UTC