Re: mkiv and unicode

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 16-3-2010 17:14, Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote:
> Hallo,
>
>>> I work all the time with good old mkii-context, but I have had a lot
>>> of problems last time, which could be solved easely if I switch to
>>> mkiv. So I wonder if I should change. The main argument for me to
>>> stay with mkii is the following:
>>>
>>> I have a lot of lua scripts withhin scite which are preprocessing my
>>> textfiles (string.gsub etc.) These scripts depent on ansi-code and do
>>> not work with unicode too.
>>>
>>> An other problem I have, is to teach scite to use utf-8 per default.
>>> (code.page=65001) does not work for me. I have tried this with a
>>> lot of versions of scite.
>>
>> code.page=65001
>> output.code.page=65001
>
> I have tried this very often. I have tried this in a fresh scite
> installation uncommenting this in the global propertie file. But it
> doesn't work.
> File->Encoding is Code Page Property. And my files are saved in Ansi.

strange

> I do not want look every time if I have saved with the proper
> encoding. I do not want files with ansi and files in utf mixed. I
> have considered to change the editor, but I very like the lua
> ability.
>
>>> Has anybody experiences with scite-lua-scripts and unicode?
>>
>> it depends on what you do but normally lua does not care about funny
>> characters in strings
>>
>> an option is to run the script outside scite and pipe data back
>
> Yes, this should allow one to use special librarys. I have heard of
> 'slnunicode' but haven't tested it yet.

you can then just use texlua which has this built in

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