[TxMt] Text Encoding Support

[Kelvin Tse]

I just tried skEdit, I think I like it, it's very ftp oriented, and  
it display the right!(Works with Japanese and Korean, but not chinese  
through, i think it's a bug in the program). I think I will buy a  
register it. :) It gonna help me a lot.

Thanks Sean

Kelvin



On 04/12/2005, at 11:31 AM, Sean Schertell wrote:

>>> 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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