[Cuis] Status of Unicode support?

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Phil,

On 6/23/2015 10:25 PM, Phil (list) wrote:
> I should probably clarify what I'm looking for: is it possible to use
> Unicode characters in the code editors (i.e. method source code)?

I haven't worked on this, maybe others (Ken?) can comment.

In any case, if the mathematical symbols you want to use are not too 
many, I would hijack some of codes in the 128 to 255 range. According to 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-15 , there are 33 unused code 
points, from 16r7F to 16r9F. Some of them are used by Cuis to store 
alternate glyphs for $^ and $_ , and original (small) $, $. $; $: but 
you can use them anyway if needed.

Or you can also completely ignore ISO 8859-15, just keep the ASCII part, 
and use the 16r80 to 16rFF range at will. You can prepare a new font 
family, by copying Bitmap DejaVu, and add the glyps you need.

If you want to be able to save and read proper Unicode files with the 
correct code points for these glyps (to be able to edit them outside 
Cuis), we'd need a kind of TextConverter, something akin to 
#iso8859s15CodeForUnicodeCodePoint: .

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich

> On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 21:16 -0400, Phil (list) wrote:
>> I recall there was a lot of discussion a while back about Unicode
>> support in Cuis and I was just curious if anyone who was in the know
>> could summarize both what was agreed to and where things stand on this?
>> Any pointers to example code is also appreciated as I've not done very
>> much with Unicode personally.
>>
>> (I was taking a look at porting Nile but of course soon ran into the
>> issue of it utilizing various Unicode characters for mathematical
>> notation.)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Phil
>
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