Re: Block editor with Unicode

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From	Christian Kellermann <ckeen@pestilenz.org>
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Subject	Re: Block editor with Unicode
Date	Fri, 10 Oct 2014 16:06:39 +0200
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Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> writes:

> Traditionally, blocks with its 1024 bytes have been printed with 16
> lines of 64 characters (or a similiar measure like 25*40 with some
> extra bytes free...) and this has been fine with fixed memory
> footprint characters. But now I am thinking on how a block editor
> should behave when entering UTF-8 encoded Unicode characters. Do the
> line break after 64 visible characters and make the last line(s)
> shorter ? Make the line shorter which contains the Unicode character ?
> See the block as flowing free-format text with explicit line break
> characters, simply limited to 1024 Bytes ?

AIUI Chuck Moore's colorforth blocks for example don't handle linebreaks
at all, or if you want to insert them they are editor words (blue words
IIRC).

Kind regards,

Christian

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Block editor with Unicode Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2014-10-10 15:33 +0200
  Re: Block editor with Unicode Christian Kellermann <ckeen@pestilenz.org> - 2014-10-10 16:06 +0200
  Re: Block editor with Unicode peter.m.falth@gmail.com - 2014-10-10 07:27 -0700
  Re: Block editor with Unicode albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-10-10 15:27 +0000
  Re: Block editor with Unicode anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-10-10 15:59 +0000
    Re: Block editor with Unicode jg <josefg@gmail.com> - 2014-10-10 10:37 -0700
    Re: Block editor with Unicode hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-10-10 16:27 -0700
      Re: Block editor with Unicode hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-10-10 16:30 -0700
        UTF-8 'toupper' and 'tolower' (Re: Block editor with Unicode) Marcos Cruz <null_email_so_use_my_contact_page@programandala.net> - 2014-11-10 16:46 +0000
  Re: Block editor with Unicode Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-10-10 11:27 -0500
    Re: Block editor with Unicode Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-10-11 00:10 +0200
      Re: Block editor with Unicode Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-10-11 04:52 -0500
  Re: Block editor with Unicode Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-10-11 00:04 +0200
  Re: Block editor with Unicode Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2014-10-15 11:31 +0200
  Re: Block editor with Unicode Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2014-10-21 14:09 +0200
    Re: Block editor with Unicode Stefan Mauerhofer <smauerhofer@androsoft.ch> - 2014-11-11 04:10 -0800
      Re: Block editor with Unicode Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2014-11-12 07:45 +0100

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