Re: 2.0.1 alpha 73

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From: Josef Drexler
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 02:38

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On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:19:38 +0100, Marcin Grzegorczyk wrote:

> Josef Drexler wrote:
>> The only new feature in alpha 73 is complete Unicode support
> 
> Well, not really complete: limited to Plane 0, no bidi support, no 
> combining character support ;-)

Well, yes, it's UCS Level 1.

> But seriously, what TTDPatch really lacks now is a Unicode support in 
> the keyboard handler.  Hmm, that's going to be rather difficult -- the 
> existing code assumes 1 byte per character throughout (and DOS version 
> assumes 1 character per key).

It think it may be easier to implement that at the text input level. 
That's really the only place it matters.  I'm not sure how to design it
though.  In Linux I create my non-standard characters with the "combine"
key, e.g. the sequence <combine " a> becomes ä.  Something like that
would be workable, but won't support all needed characters.

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