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UTF-8 in editor from Xprogs.tcz

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neonix:
UTF-8 in editor from Xprogs.tcz

I noticed it don't support other  than western languages letters.

There could be also:
Autosave option every 30 seconds.
Function called "text wrapping", I believe.

curaga:
In order to display those UTF8 chars, you'd need a font with wide coverage. And those are something like 5-10mb.

Rich:
Hi neonix
This is the design philosophy:

--- Quote from: roberts on October 11, 2010, 07:47:08 PM ---Tiny Core is not a turnkey distribution. It is very different than most Linux distributions.

It is a minimal GUI environment that allows users to easily pick and choose their desired applications. ...
--- End quote ---
To the best of my knowledge, that is still the goal.

The editor from Xprogs is there to provide basic editing capability
in a GUI environment.

I would suggest one of the reasons it's included is to provide users
with a small simple to use editor that won't break configuration files.

I think most if not all config files want to be in plain ASCII, or they will break.
If text wrapping inserts a newline character, it will cause breakage.

Here's a thought. Why not install an editor that has the features you want?
Maybe take a look at:
leafpad
abiword
libreoffice

polikuo:
If the platform you're using has fltk-xft.tcz or fltk-full.tcz then load it.
The default editor requires xft support in order to display UTF-8 characters.

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