jhi, nick, and forks @ perl-unicode,
I am now struggling to get Encode straight, among other things.
In a course of doing so I am beginning to get a feeling that none of
us are using decent tool to view decent Unicode text. Here I mean
Unicode, not just Ascii + your language.
What tool are you using to see the text you (en|de)coded? Web
browsers? xterm that comes with XFree4? I just found yudit, a Xwindow
text editor definitely for this purpose.
Just go to
http://www.yudit.org/
And get a source. Just configure -> make -> make install will do (did
on my FreeBSD/i386 and MacOS X). startx if you have not. and 'yudit &'.
If you are using XFree 4.x, just choose 'misc' for font and most of
the languages are covered.
As an editor its feature set is as limited as (pico|ee|Simple
Text|Notepad.exe). But as a Unicode (viewer|editor) it has significant
advantage over (viewer|editor) that are based upon conventional apps
which Unicode support is added later on.
* It shows "Unicode Number" in the place of the character where no font
is available. It shows the character like
+---+
|f f|
|f e|
+---+ for U+fffe, for instance.
* It supports bidirectional characters and devanagari
* It comes with various input methods
The implication of the first one is especially useful because you can
now autogenerate table with something like 'for my $c (0..\xffff){print
chr($c);}' and see what is actually inside (This approach is too much
for an ordinary editor; emacs spits you with a bunch of \0123 ....)
Hope this tip helps....
Dan the Man with Too Many Glyphs to Browse
