I checked the patch with GEdit, Vim, Geany, Notepad and HexEdit. The original text shows as a mu sign ( in html μ ) changes the text into an A circumflex ( in html  ) followed by a mu sign.
In Hex it shows : 0xB5 0x6D changed into 0xC2 0xB5 0x6D ( where 0xC2 is the A circumflex) my environment : env | grep LANG LANG=en_US.utf8 GDM_LANG=en_US.utf8 Is this as expected? Is something wrong with my setup? http://www.utf8-chartable.de/ maybe encoding it as "\0xc2\0xb5" would be an option? Greetings, Edwin van den Oetelaar 2013/5/3 Dick Hollenbeck <[email protected]>: > We introduced a patch today which introduces UTF8 encoding into a couple of > source files, > then made a policy decision to allow UTF8 string constants in 8 bit strings. > So this is > currently about 3 places only, nothing to worry about yet. > > The only time you can be sure you have an 8 bit string is if it is not > wrapped in wxT(). > > pcb_calculator uses some 8 bit strings. In the future we will see more as wx > 2.8 fades away. > > You should setup your programming editors to use UTF-8 encoding in the near > future. > > After doing that, to check your editor, try loading the attached patch. The > "um" text in > the patch should show the greek mu in the micron const string near UNIT_MICRON > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_%28letter%29 > > > We will be adding this to the coding standards document also. > > Note that ASCII files pass as UTF-8 files, but not vice versa. So for a long > time, and on > most *.cpp files there will never be any difference. Patches will still come > in as ASCII, > especially from new people. Only when we have: > > a) in internationally recognized character, that is > b) not ASCII, in a > c) 8 bit string. > > will this ever be an issue moving forward. And until wx 2.8 goes away, it is > very limited > in where we can *know* we have 8 bit strings, due to the wxT() wrapper in > play in wx 2.8. > wxT() abstracts the bitness of the strings on different platforms and builds. > > Again, the test file is attached. > > Regards, > > Dick > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
