Added to the bug list. I vote for leaving it as it is and documenting the way it works. It's not that hard to deal with once one is aware of how it works.
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 5:30 AM, chris burke <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with Don in that this just needs documenting, and is not a bug. > > On 24 October 2016 at 05:45, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Qt works on unicode characters, but j uses utf8 for interfacing with Qt > so > > that I think this issue is a bug, it should report byte offset. Please > > file a bug in jwiki for record. > > > > On 24 Oct, 2016, at 1:28 PM, Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > The return from (wd 'sm get edit') contains the text behind the window > > and > > > select showing a selection. The text is literal and the select gives > > > indices of selected characters. If text contains any unicode > characters, > > > like line drawing characters the indices are offset. The indices are > not > > in > > > bytes, but characters. Converting the text to either literal2 or > literal4 > > > makes the select indices correct. > > > > > > > > > I don't think that this is an error, but one must convert the text to > > > literal2 or literal4 to get the index to work. Should the index reflect > > the > > > U8 selection index instead of the literal2 or literal4 indices? A > little > > > inconsistency. > > > > > > > > > I haven't been able to find where this kind of information is covered, > > but > > > it may be there somewhere. Is this the way it's supposed to work? If > so, > > > not a problem, but it needs to be documented. I learned how it works by > > > experimenting. There is no Discussion on the > > Window_Driver/Session_Manager > > > page, I can put in it what I have found so far, but I suspect that > there > > is > > > a lot more that should be covered. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
