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Re: from 6.4 to 7.0 [message #58577 is a reply to message #58499]

Fri, 08 February 2008 01:36

R.Bauer
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Registered: November 1998

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Chris Torrence schrieb:
> On Jan 28, 3:01 pm, "skymaxw...@gmail.com" <skymaxw...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> hello, guys
>>
>> i have widget application, written at idl 6.4. Now i want to port it
>> to 7.0.
>> it's ok ...except string values of my buttons, menus etc in 7.0.
>> When i run my application in 7.0 i've got bad symbols like
>> hieroglyphs :((
>>
>> So what happened with strings in 7.0 ?
>
> Nothing changed for strings or widget programs between IDL6.4 and 7.0.
> The only difference is the encoding used by the text editor. By
> default the IDL Workbench is set to use UTF-8 encoding for all text
> files. This works fine for most character sets, especially East Asian
> languages. However, it can cause problems for characters in some
> languages such as German.

Well utf-8 is pretty fine with German too. Unfortunately older code
before 7.0 was always written using iso-8859-1 -*- and idl is not using
utf-8 encoding.

It would be nice idl can support utf-8 too. A unicode string type on
default would be great. I do like using signs like

↓ → ← ↑ ¶ ß « »

independent from ö ä ü too

Btw. it is quite easy to add a line similiar to this to all of our
scripts. It would be nice the workbench checks such a line and did set
the right encoding then.

;-*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-

For the idl shell or the prompt I don't found a switch to set a
different encoding.

cheers
Reimar

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