Re: [Bug-zile] Adding Unicode support

[Reuben Thomas]

On 13 March 2014 00:30, Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Garnaik,

On Mar 13, 2014, at 9:11 AM, Garnaik Sumeet <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello Gary and Reuben Sir,
>          I kind of overviewed the source of zile and hopefully I have figured it out on how to add unicode support to zile.

I have two things to add to Gary's comments:

1. I would like to see what types and methods you propose to change; I think that is a more helpful way to think than in terms of files you plan to touch.

2. Gary is quite right that you will need to use the wide-character version of curses. This brings up another question: is it best to represent the buffer as wide characters (wchar_t) and translate to/from UTF-8 just for loading/saving? I think so, as otherwise computing offsets within the buffer becomes a bit of a nightmare.

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