Hello Zhang Enwei, > I'm studying and using PicoLisp, and trying to make it a regular dev tool in > my daily development. It's some difficult but quite interesting for me.
Glad to hear that! > I found a defect about Chinese language supporting, under Mac OS X 32bit, and > Arm 64bit version(in Termux), but Java version is OK. Yes, I know :( I've observed it with Japanese (Kanji and kana) input too. > It is, for example, when I input (setq x "你好"), the REPL will display like > this: > : ((s(s(s(s(s(setq x "你好") > -> "你好" Right. It is the line editor in @lib/led.l, which cannot handle characters taking up two places on the screen. To do it correctly, it would need to output *two* backspaces, but the line editor doesn't know the width of these characters. ErsatzLisp, the Java version, does not have this problem, because it uses no line editor ;) In normal PicoLisp it is only in debug mode, because this loads the line editor. Production mode PicoLisp (i.e. started without '+') should be clean in this regard, but not very useful. > The result is OK, but the display is messy. > > I'd like to try to solve this issue, would anyone like to tell me the code > position? It is in some places, most importantly in the places in @lib/led.l where backspaces are output, of the form like (do D (prin "^H")) There is no easy fix. PicoLisp lacks the functionality to calculate the width of unicode characters. I suppose it needs some extra character tables and lookup mechanisms in the base system, or perhaps call an external C function via 'native'. Any suggestions? ♪♫ Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe