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Re: [Phix] ? operator; string behavior

• Posted by _tom (admin) Nov 06, 2017
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Testing Phix and WEE.

Irv's patch now makes WEE work in utf8: WEE, puts, terminal, office, and internet now all work in utf8.

Pete's Phix patch makes ? operator behave.

Phix ? operator

• ? string of plain-text characters is output as text
• ? string of utf8 characters is output as numbers

? "hello"        -- PLAIN TEXT  
    --> "hello" 
   
     
?  "ÅßČ░☼□"   -- UTF8 TEXT 
    -->{195,133,195,159,196,140,226,150,145,226,152,188,226,150,161} 

• puts will output utf8 text

puts(1,"ÅßČ░☼□") 
--> ÅßČ░☼□ 

• ? will output plain-text in its literal form
• puts outputs text; control characters are active

-- literal (control characters not active) 
? "--- \n ---" 
 
/* 

"--- \n" ---" 
*/ 
-- control characters active 
 
puts(1, "--- \n ---" )     
/* 

--- 
--- 
*/ 

The Phix ? operator does not output utf8 text to a terminal.

Should the ? operator output utf8 strings?

_tom