Am Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:31:05 +0200 schrieb Khaled Hosny:
limited utf-8 is now available -- so interesting that Aleks made MkIV default --, don't know when/if-ever bidi support will be there ...
I don't know if bidi will ever be there either, but the sole fact that it supports UTF-8 is already surprising (the editor lags behing for ages in that respect) and enough for a vast majority of TeX users.
The limited utf-8-support has been there for years. And it is really very limited: WinEdt is not capable to handle utf-8 documents that require more than one code page (eg. a mix of Russian and French).
I've seen all sorts of limited unicode support, but that one is really retarded, I can't actually imagine how such thing would be coded!
It is a simple mapping to a 256 codepage: To quote from the documentation: However, WinEdt can transparently convert Unicode (UTF-8) documents into ACP when they are loaded and back to UTF-8 when they are saved. This makes it possible to work with UTF-8 documents as long as they can be converted into ACP (Ansi Code Page). -- Ulrike Fischer