Dan Kogai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>jhi, nick, and forks @ perl-unicode,
>
> I am now struggling to get Encode straight, among other things.
> In a course of doing so I am beginning to get a feeling that none of
>us are using decent tool to view decent Unicode text. Here I mean
>Unicode, not just Ascii + your language.
> What tool are you using to see the text you (en|de)coded? Web
>browsers? xterm that comes with XFree4? I just found yudit, a Xwindow
>text editor definitely for this purpose.
>
> Just go to
>
>http://www.yudit.org/
I am using the Yudit that was available on the SuSE6.4 CDROMs.
I have also thrown a bunch of Unicode fonts (including some TTFs)
at my /usr/X11R6/...
I am also playing with an editor-in-Java Jedit which makes a reasonable
stab at displaying your test file - but I don't know what it is
supposed to look like. (Java has been Unicode from day-0 as far as I know.)
>
> And get a source. Just configure -> make -> make install will do (did
>on my FreeBSD/i386 and MacOS X). startx if you have not. and 'yudit &'.
> If you are using XFree 4.x, just choose 'misc' for font and most of
>the languages are covered.
misc font seemed a little klunky for _my_ hot-spot (Phonetics).
But I have not grabbed new copies for several months now.
> As an editor its feature set is as limited as (pico|ee|Simple
>Text|Notepad.exe). But as a Unicode (viewer|editor) it has significant
>advantage over (viewer|editor) that are based upon conventional apps
>which Unicode support is added later on.
>
>* It shows "Unicode Number" in the place of the character where no font
>is available. It shows the character like
>
>+---+
>|f f|
>|f e|
>+---+ for U+fffe, for instance.
>
>* It supports bidirectional characters and devanagari
>* It comes with various input methods
>
> The implication of the first one is especially useful because you can
>now autogenerate table with something like 'for my $c (0..\xffff){print
>chr($c);}' and see what is actually inside (This approach is too much
>for an ordinary editor; emacs spits you with a bunch of ¥0123 ....)
>
> Hope this tip helps....
>
>Dan the Man with Too Many Glyphs to Browse
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Nick Ing-Simmons
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