Fonts & Unicode

[Dar Scott]

On Jul 26, 2005, at 2:49 PM, Brad Borch wrote:

> Also, if you try to change the font of unicode text using the menu, 
> the text gets converted back to single-byte characters.

It would be nice if language was a separate property and not part of 
the font property.  Then each can be changed independently.  Or the IDE 
acted that way.

(Actually, I'd personally rather do away with language and go strictly 
Unicode for everything.  I probably don't understand all the 
consequences of asking for that.  Unicode tries to handle round-trip 
conversion from and to other standards, so I think we would be happy 
with pasting strange encodings and with selecting any fonts--it would 
be usually transparent.  For I/O we would want to convert, though.)

Dar

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