Re: less & composing characters - fix

["Mark Nudelman" <markn at greenwoodsoftware dot com>]

Hi Nadim,
The new version of less is ready for testing.  You can download from
http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/less-384.tar.gz.  I'm especially
interested in testing multibyte UTF-8 characters, and composing and
combining characters, including special cases like man-page style
overstriking of multi-byte characters (two identical characters with a
backspace between them, or a character overstruck by an underscore),
line breaks in long lines containing multibyte characters, and command
line editing (search pattern or :e filename) with multibyte characters.
One thing that I know doesn't work quite right is combining characters
on the command line, although composing characters should work.  Let me
know if you find any problems.

Thanks for your help!
--Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nadim Shaikli" <shaikli at yahoo dot com>
To: "Mark Nudelman" <markn at greenwoodsoftware dot com>
Cc: <developer at arabeyes dot org>
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: less & composing characters - fix


> --- Mark Nudelman <markn at greenwoodsoftware dot com> wrote:
> > No problem, I probably won't have it ready until Monday or later
anyway.
>
> Cool, drop us a line of where to grab the source and we'll gladly give
> any feedback we might conjure.
>
> Regards,
>
>  - Nadim
>
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Nadim Shaikli" <shaikli at yahoo dot com>
> > To: "Mark Nudelman" <markn at greenwoodsoftware dot com>
> > Cc: <developer at arabeyes dot org>
> > Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 12:10 AM
> > Subject: Re: less & composing characters - fix
> >
> >
> > > --- Mark Nudelman <markn at greenwoodsoftware dot com> wrote:
> > > > I have a new version of less almost complete, in which I've
> > > > rewritten much of the UTF-8 handling code and incorporated
> > > > your fixes for composing and combining characters.  Would
> > > > you be interested in testing it before I do a general release?
> > >
> > > Sure, but I won't get to it in any serious manner until Monday
> > > (hope that's not too late).  I'm also including the 'developer'
> > > list in case others would be interested.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > >  - Nadim
>
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