Re: [NTG-context] mkiv and unicode
Hallo,
I work all the time with good old mkii-context, but I have had a lot of problems last time, which could be solved easely if I switch to mkiv. So I wonder if I should change. The main argument for me to stay with mkii is the following:
I have a lot of lua scripts withhin scite which are preprocessing my textfiles (string.gsub etc.) These scripts depent on ansi-code and do not work with unicode too.
An other problem I have, is to teach scite to use utf-8 per default. (code.page=65001) does not work for me. I have tried this with a lot of versions of scite.
code.page=65001 output.code.page=65001
I have tried this very often. I have tried this in a fresh scite installation uncommenting this in the global propertie file. But it doesn't work. File->Encoding is Code Page Property. And my files are saved in Ansi. I do not want look every time if I have saved with the proper encoding. I do not want files with ansi and files in utf mixed. I have considered to change the editor, but I very like the lua ability.
Has anybody experiences with scite-lua-scripts and unicode?
it depends on what you do but normally lua does not care about funny characters in strings
an option is to run the script outside scite and pipe data back
Yes, this should allow one to use special librarys. I have heard of 'slnunicode' but haven't tested it yet. Wolfgang
On 16-3-2010 17:14, Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote:
Hallo,
I work all the time with good old mkii-context, but I have had a lot of problems last time, which could be solved easely if I switch to mkiv. So I wonder if I should change. The main argument for me to stay with mkii is the following:
I have a lot of lua scripts withhin scite which are preprocessing my textfiles (string.gsub etc.) These scripts depent on ansi-code and do not work with unicode too.
An other problem I have, is to teach scite to use utf-8 per default. (code.page=65001) does not work for me. I have tried this with a lot of versions of scite.
code.page=65001 output.code.page=65001
I have tried this very often. I have tried this in a fresh scite installation uncommenting this in the global propertie file. But it doesn't work. File->Encoding is Code Page Property. And my files are saved in Ansi.
strange
I do not want look every time if I have saved with the proper encoding. I do not want files with ansi and files in utf mixed. I have considered to change the editor, but I very like the lua ability.
Has anybody experiences with scite-lua-scripts and unicode?
it depends on what you do but normally lua does not care about funny characters in strings
an option is to run the script outside scite and pipe data back
Yes, this should allow one to use special librarys. I have heard of 'slnunicode' but haven't tested it yet.
you can then just use texlua which has this built in ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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