[arachne] Re: UTF-8

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On 11 Aug 08 at 16:51, Steve <arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>   In looking around at apps that can "do" Unicode (composing as well as
>displaying), I ran across a very DOS-look app called mined 2000.  Come to
>find out, it is available for DOS.

Thanks for the link, Steve. Mined can actually "do" Unicode. But it
will not be able to display anything, unless the current font does
not support the international characters. And as DOS does not have
Unicode fonts, but only different 8bit character sets, mined will
just do, what any editor can do: edit a text in a 8bit character
set, before you convert the result to the encoding of your choice -
probably to UTF-8. So the DOS version of this application is of
rather limited value. And as it does not even allow you to work in
the classical DOS fonts (cp852, cp866), you will need to load ISO-
fonts just for this one application...

Whereas in Linux this seems to be a nice tool. I will try to 
get some Unicode fonts.

Regards, 
Christof Lange

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