[TxMt] Text Encoding Support

[Jeroen van der Ham]

Sean Schertell wrote:
> 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 believe the second problem is not with Unicode, but with the font you 
are using. Unicode is only a way to represent characters in bits and 
bytes (actually, that's UTF-8's job and Unicode only defines the 
numbers). It is not Unicode's job to display them.

It *is* also possible to do Unicode Japanese input in TextMate, but 
you're not gonna like it… OS X contains a "Unicode Hex" inputmethod. 
With this inputmethod, if you press option, you can type the hexadecimal 
value of the Unicode codepoint and you get the character typed...

This is probably not workable, but there is at least one way to do it..


Jeroen.