Re: Status of Edix
- Posted by Bhupen1277 May 06, 2019
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(Written in response to a private email)
Work has largely stalled. ~ ~ Of course there is also wee, but that has other problems (for me). I have demo\wee here which is a hacked copy of 0.38 that runs on phix. (I was under the impression that phix ships with that, but I just checked and obviously I never added it.) Firstly it would need a re-porting of the latest version, but then I would be in much the same boat as with Edix, namely porting 15-years-worth of Edita features into it, plus afaict it does not handle unicode.
Edit: actually, there is a demo\wee36 in bitbucket, not in the distro.
Is Unicode the same as UTF-8? (My Gnome-Terminal encoding preference is set to UTF-8 Unicode)
From WEE-52 Release notes: Version 0.50 - Set codepage to UTF-8 (thanks Irv)
Regards, Ken
Unicode is a 16 bit character list to encompass all the languages of the world. It was no enough for some of the Asian countries’ language needs and it is now a 20 bit character. Older programmers could not cope with 16 bit characters as everybody was geared to 8 bit characters. Even incorporating ANSi (8 bit) instead of ASCII (7 bit) was a big challenge. So, led by the Linux developers and the Internet needs they developed 8 bit UTF8 to allow for the 16 bit Unicode characters. The calisthenics involved are beyond my ability to explain, but they ended up converting all of the Unicode characters - each 2 byte character was converted to to 2-5 byte characters. There are many free conversion routines available for Unicode to UTF8 and vice versa. But definitely UTF8 and Unicode are not the same.
