Re: Android Gforth not displaying non-ASCII characters
"Ethan Gardener" <[email protected]> Sun, 01 Dec 2019 17:10:35 +0000
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On Sat, Nov 30, 2019, at 12:46 PM, Bernd Paysan wrote: > Gforth gl-terminal is for ASCII and a few special characters only. That's > intentional, it should be simple. I agree. I looked into how Plan 9 does unicode because it seems very simple, but it's not so simple under the surface: The display driver has to cache images representing ranges of characters. To quote someone who worked on Plan 9, "There's no such thing as a simple cache bug." ;) And it has bug of omission: it has no support for combining characters.