From: Herouth Maoz (herouth@NETVISION.NET.IL)
Date: 29 Feb 00, 04:18 EST
From: Herouth Maoz <herouth@NETVISION.NET.IL> Subject: Re: European Users: Your opinion about ISO 8859 question ? Vince Darley wrote: > Alpha could add an 'encoding' value to the resource fork of files > it opens (the selection, font, size, etc are already stored in the > resource fork), and this could accomplish what you want. In terms of > entry/display of characters (your previous paragraph which I removed), > that involves much more work... It's certainly something we'd like > to achieve. Shouldn't it do what it does with the unix/dos/etc? I mean the concept of doing the translation, but doing the actual editing in memory in Macintosh line endings? I think the same should be done with encoded files - and then you are just supposed to support the Mac's own input methods and display. When you save, you have to use the reverse translation. By the way, isn't there a library within the MacOS which is supposed to do character encoding translation? I know that's how iCab supports (some) Unicode. By the way, I use a special font and a special keyboard layout to do ISO-8859-8 work (most of my HTMLs are in that charset). Alpha basically doesn't mind, except when I try to use a control character when I'm still in the ISO-8859-8 keyboard, whereupon it crashes into MacsBug. Herouth