[arachne] OT: mined

Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

On 15 Aug 08 at 1:37, Steve <arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>|ĺ wr|.25t-ő thi|ť in U8 mode (UTF)
>- wrxtTheta thepsilon# in L1 mode (most likely 8859-1)

The problem is, how to display the UTF-8 code, when you are done.
In DOS, the by far best way to display them it Arachne ;-). But
all Arachne can do at the moment, is translate UTF-8 to 8bit
again. At least she has the common European fonts (ISO-8859-1,
ISO-8859-2 and Cyrillic) at hand.


>   I think they must be included with the program.  I managed to write with
>Greek and Japanese characters before I got lost and couldn't find my way
>back.  I can find no Japanese system fonts installed on the machine, and the
>only Greek fonts seem to have to do with X, which doesn't seem to have any
>relevance to mined.
>
>   The Debian mined v.14 package has little in common with the FreeBSD mined
>v.14 port.  Some of the menus have completely different options, and the
>FreeBSD console version is different still.  I don't know how much of the
>differences are due to simple config options set at build time, how much is
>due to different system fonts being present, or what all else.
>

I downloaded the source and (was surprised that) it compiled without
problems on my system. Fonts were not part of the download. Most
contemporary Linux distributions use Unicode as a default, but have
fonts of different value. E. g. some fixed fonts have only ASCII
or ISO-8859-1 some have certain subset of Unicode. That means they
can cope with Russian, and accented Latin characters, may be even
with Greek and Arabic, but the do not contain Asian glyphs.

>   I think I need to read and play a lot more before I say anything
>other
>than, "It's a strange little editor."  ;-)

I think the basic idea - support the cooexistence of several
international languages in a small editor - is quite interesting.
Has anybody tried to run Midnight Commander with fixed unicode fonts?

Christof

________________________________________________________________

Českobratrská církev evangelická - Betlémská kaple na Žižkově
Prokopova 4/216, 130 00 Praha  3, Czech Republic
Tel. (+420) 222 78 06 73 / 222 78 20 02 / 603 18 87 53
http://www.volny.cz/cce.zizkov

                  Arachne at FreeLists
-- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --

Other related posts: