Will there be more text encoding support? Like for Japanese(Shift- JIS), Chinese(GB-2312) or Korean? I think this issue has been bought up before, but it didn't get my attention until lately.
I'm pretty sure Allan has shot this down in the past, its just not something trivial to do
Allan didn't shoot it down -- he said something like 'it's on the list but not in the immediate future'.
and Unicode does its job perfectly well.
Unicode in TM *doesn't* work perfectly well for Japanese because:
(a) You can't do text input at all for Japanese even in Unicode (b) Japanese text is not displayed as double-width so the characters appear to overlap and look 'squished' together.
I think this is true for other multibyte languages too but I can only comment on Japanese for which TM is simply not usable :-(
Until TM supports non-western languages, the best I can recommend is to register a copy of skEdit for $20 which is a close runner-up to TM in that it's a very nice tabbed interface done in Cocoa. Not as drop- dead beautiful or feature-rich as TM, but pretty dang good and handles multibyte languages including Shift-JIS without a hitch. Beats the bejeezus out of bbedit --eewwww!
Happy coding!
Sean
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