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larrykollar
Ä and Ö
Hi! I just compiled tines on Slackware Linux. I love the feel and look of this.
Typing Finnish alphabets ä or ö produces gibberish like M-CM-$. Changing terminal emulator's encoding from unicode to something else produces different kinds of gibberish. Hmm.
Unfortunately, yes, that's a known issue—Tines doesn't play well with Unicode. The original hnb code predates UTF-8.
I think the permanent fix is to compile a modern version of ncurses alongside Tines and static-link the "wide characters" library. That's necessary because some OSes (cough OSX cough) ship with a very outdated version of ncurses and don't include wide character support. Some other code changes will be necessary; I know the bullet fields would have to be expanded, for example.
The upside is that I think it would also fix the open issues with Tines on Arch Linux, and make building packages a lot easier.
All accents and special characters we use in other languages have the same problems in Linux (not only OSuX), too. I writte to myself (notes, etc.) in English, but I copy/paste some info in Spanish as well. In those cases, I'm prevented to use tines and need to use a plain text file with Vim. It's sad. :-)
I'm well-aware of the issue, unfortunately. I think if you set the encoding to Latin-1, you'll get better results.
The long-term solution is to compile with ncursesw, the wide-character variant. That's going to touch pretty much everything, but I need to get it done.
On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 8:51 AM alganza [email protected] wrote:
All accents and special characters we use in other languages have the same problems in Linux (not only OSuX), too. I writte to myself (notes, etc.) in English, but I copy/paste some info in Spanish as well. In those cases, I'm prevented to use tines and need to use a plain text file with Vim. It's sad. :-)
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Hi... is there any progress in this matter still to be expected? It is a great program, but I write in German and it is really difficult without any Umlaut (ä, ö...) I have converted the .tines file to ISO-8859 (=latin1) with iconv, which is no help at all. It becomes even worse, because you won't be able to show 'and `any more.
