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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Right, In this respect, everything probably just works and always has.<BR>Just don't try to display any two non-English languages in a GUI at once.<BR> <BR>I think we should port Trestle to use 16 bit characters always internally.<BR>Even going so far as to double the memory use of common English strings.<BR> <BR>Can anyone vouch for XDrawString16 generally being implemented and working?<BR> <BR> - Jay<br><br> <BR><div>> Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 00:46:55 -0500<br>> From: hendrik@topoi.pooq.com<br>> To: m3devel@elegosoft.com<br>> Subject: Re: [M3devel] Fw: UTF-16: Greek alphabet with CM3<br>> <br>> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 07:47:55AM +0100, Olaf Wagner wrote:<br>> > I know that there have been controverse discussions about the right<br>> > way to do unicode support.<br>> > <br>> > Is there any way to help Elmar Stellnberger with a quick solution?<br>> <br>> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-7<br>> It seems there's an eight-bit code that's enough for the Greek language.<br>> So in theory all you need to do is set the right environment variables<br>> to specify a Greek character set. In practice you might have to define<br>> the geometry fot the Greek characters for Trestle. Unless it manages<br>> to use the underlying OS support for this.<br>> <br>> -- hendrik<br>> <br>> <br>> > <br>> > Olaf<br>> > <br>> > Begin forwarded message:<br>> > <br>> > Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 20:13:54 +0100<br>> > From: Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@elstel.org><br>> > To: m3-support@elego.de<br>> > Subject: UTF-16: Greek alphabet with CM3<br>> > <br>> > <br>> > Dear Supporters of CM3, Elegosoft<br>> > <br>> > Wanting to make use of CM3s new UTF-16 feature I have tried to use <br>> > greek letters by VAL(945+code,WIDECHAR) where 945 is alpha and 946 is <br>> > beta in the unicode table. However I soon had to notice that outputing <br>> > widechars is not supported by Trestle which still seems to be based on <br>> > X11R4. Some analysis of the problem has shown that TextVBT calls <br>> > VBT.PaintText which does however use the CHAR type internally rather <br>> > than Widechar calling PaintSub to output text instead of the X11R6 <br>> > function XDrawString16. Is it true that you plan real unicode support <br>> > for CM3 or is there any way to hack the trestle toolkit into allowing <br>> > X11R6 functions? If yes or no how could I convert current X11R6 includes <br>> > for being used with Modula-3? Nonetheless I would really welcome true <br>> > native utf-16 support (as nowadays given by the iso10646-1 X core fonts <br>> > like also 'fixed') because that would be the only way to make use of <br>> > utf-16 for Windows ports. Otherwise I will have to consider whether I <br>> > can use Modula-3 at all for my current project which is about converting <br>> > the automaton simulator www.elstel.org/coan from Object Pascal into a <br>> > currently supported language and publishing it as open source.<br>> > Thanks a lot for your effort!<br>> > <br>> > Yours,<br>> > Elmar Stellnberger<br>> > -- <br>> > Olaf Wagner -- elego Software Solutions GmbH -- http://www.elegosoft.com<br>> > Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25 / Gebäude 12, 13355 Berlin, Germany<br>> > phone: +49 30 23 45 86 96 mobile: +49 177 2345 869 fax: +49 30 23 45 86 95<br>> > Geschäftsführer: Michael Diers, Olaf Wagner | Sitz: Berlin<br>> > Handelregister: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 77719 | USt-IdNr: DE163214194<br></div> </div></body>
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