UTF-8 support not on the road map?

[Thorsten Haude]

Hi,

* Tim Hubberstey wrote (2007-12-30 13:05):
>On 2007-12-28 12:38, Thorsten Haude wrote:
>>* Jörg Fischer wrote (2007-09-04 11:04):
>>>Zhang Weiwu wrote:
>>>>Is there any plan for the future version of nedit? If so is UTF-8 
>>>>support on the way? Just curious.
>>>The short answer to this is there is no roadmap ;-)
>>
>>http://nedit.hackvalue.nl/niki/index.php/RoadMap
>
>At the risk of incurring the wrath of the list, I have to question the 
>importance of UTF-8 to a _programmer's_ editor. I'm not stating that it 
>isn't important, I'm just throwing this out as a discussion point to see 
>what the community thinks.

That's an important question. We shouldn't add something just because
everybody else think it would be a good idea.


>So that you can see where I'm coming from, this is my profile:
>o English speaker

That's one bouns point for you right there.


>I have no doubt that UTF-8 support should be ranked very high for a word 
>processor. However, most languages that I'm aware of support only 7-bit 
>ASCII for the "active" (non-comment) portion of the language.

Ruby and Java support UTF-8 throughout the tool chain.


Now on to my profile. I use NEdit for any text work, including mails,
man page viewer and the occasional shell command. None of these text
ever posed a problem, but that's only because I'm happy to have my
non-ASCII letters in ISO 8859-1/15.

Still, my desktop at work is set up with UTF-8, and that makes
problems nearly every day. I can't even copy text from one place to
another without getting some weird stuff at either end.

In addition, I would like to use NEdit for web browser text fields,
which is not possible because Firefox (or the websites, I don't care)
uses UTF-8.


>So... Is UTF-8 support actually important for a programmer's editor or 
>is it a "nice to have" feature that can be moved further down the 
>priorities list?

IMHO, most definitely yes.


Thorsten
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