/View and foreign characters

[carloslorenz]

Foreign characters like á é í à ã etc, that we normally use in Brazilian Portuguese, just cannot be entered in FIELDS when I use REBOL/View under Linux.
It's funny because under Windows this just does not happen.
Is /View for Windows written with a different kind of C language or what?

[Edoc]

I've run into similar problems. A year ago I used REBOL/View to buid a simple reporting dashboard that shows the status of key websites/pages at my company.

Unfortunately, I had to descope some of the key sites, because they were in languages that caused problems for the crawler code. I recall that one of these sites was our Brazil portal.

Sorry, I've got no solutions to offer-- I just wanted to back you up on your experience.

:^) O why can't the world settle on using the latin charset so that REBOL can remain a simple, compact language?!!  :^)

[Paul]

Actually, I have no problem entering those symbols into a field.  I use the ALT key and make sure NUM lock is on and put the actual character codes in.  For example create a field and then just Turn on NUM locks and I use the right side ALT key and press and hold while I punch in the codes on the number pad such as 161 or 160.  

Paul

[Graham]

Ahh, but Paul, are you using Linux?

[Paul]

OH I thought they were talking about windows.  Sorry don't think that will work on Linux.

Paul

[François]

Hi,

I had the same problem:
I develop under Linux, but the clients are running Windows.
I has to do with the character encoding my editor used by default.
Therefore, it is not a problem from a rebol or linux perspective. Indeed, when editing the same script under windows or linux, the encoding problem occured.
Play around with the encoding of your editor, and make sure you are using the same encoding as your target OS platform.

If your linux box is using a different character encoding as the one used to save your script, you may have such trouble.

Here are a summary of what can be wrong

OS encoding ---- Editor encoding ----- Problem?
X                                    X                        no
X                                    Y                        yes (no matter if your target OS is the same as you dvlpt OS)

Hope it helps.

François

[carloslorenz]

Hi,

I had the same problem:
I develop under Linux, but the clients are running Windows.
I has to do with the character encoding my editor used by default.
Therefore, it is not a problem from a rebol or linux perspective. Indeed, when editing the same script under windows or linux, the encoding problem occured.
Play around with the encoding of your editor, and make sure you are using the same encoding as your target OS platform.

If your linux box is using a different character encoding as the one used to save your script, you may have such trouble.

Here are a summary of what can be wrong

OS encoding ---- Editor encoding ----- Problem?
X                                    X                        no
X                                    Y                        yes (no matter if your target OS is the same as you dvlpt OS)

Hope it helps.

François

François

What I mean is something more complicated

And I guess-  YES-  it has something to do with REBOL ( at least I guess)

If I start REBOL Desktop, for instance, and if I try to enter the word "coração" (heart in Portuguese) into a text field , REBOL just echoes "coraç~ao"

Do you understand?