Hi Jehan, Unfortunately I don't know anything about utf-8, and can't help you out here! However, I must point out that David Morris (spelling?) recently sent an email to the dev list with a similar suggestion.
If both of you (with Jimmy's help maybe) come up with a plan, we'll be happy to give you subversion access etc. I for one would *welcome* a helping hand in developing. I don't know how much time I'm going to have to devote to mrxvt, so it'll be nice to have some of you help take it over... :) GI On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 04:17:30AM +0100, Jehan wrote: > > Hello, > > I am new, so I present myself: my name is Jehan, alias Jey. > I am interested in mrxvt because I have used it for some years now. But > the utf8 support takes time to arrive, so I am sad. :-( > > Anyway then I was wondering if someone was working on it. If not, I > would propose to "try". I never developed on terminal emulation, so this > is a new topic for me. But as I really want to keep mrxvt and in the > same time, I want utf8, I thought it could be nice to participate to the > development. I won't promise to succeed, but at least I can try to. > > Then my question is: what is there to know about the code structure to > facilitate my work? I have looked for the code for the last 2 hours. I > have made some points about some parts but this remains misty about many > of the functioning. I can of course work more on it to discover more of > the program's logic, but I thought the easier was to have hints to where > to look from the main developers. During the day I have a job, and the > evening I have many activities. So the more help, the better. :-) > > What I logically guess about a new encoding support is that I would have > two steps to modify: > > 1/ when an input arrive (whether it is keyboard or text paste probably, > through mouse, menu or whatever), and if the locale is set to utf8 of > course, I shall transform some keyboard signal (?) or the pasted text to > the utf-8 encoding and send it to the running program's stdin... > > 2/ when some program needs to display anything to stdout, he does it in > utf-8 (or I suppose so if the terminal encoding is set to utf8?), then I > shall decode it and display the resulting unicode value in some unicode > font. > > Any correction is welcome, because it is only a guess about what seems > some logic of what a terminal does. > > Then what are these functions which receive some input and have to > transform it in the set encoding and the ones which receive an output > and must decode it, then display it with unicode fonts? > > What I found in the code: > > - encoding.c: apparently defines the functions which take the locale, > which decides what is the encoding from it and which font to use (all > used during initialisation, init.c it seems)? Apparently there are also > some conversion functions from one encoding to another... What are they for? > > - command.c: rxvt_cmd_getc get the next input character, then > rxvt_process_getc will process it and the following characters (as much > as possible) until some escape sequence or a non-printable character > appears. > > - screen.c: then rxvt_scr_add_lines should probably do something with > the input string... but then I get lost about how this all is processed... > > Can you help me decoding this whole code logic please? > Thanks. > > Jey > > P.S.: sorry for this long email as a beginning email (especially if > someone is already taking care of utf8, which is great, and then my > email useless), but as I have just looked in the code, I wanted to ask > questions while it was fresh. Now let's go to sleep. I must go to work > in a few hours... > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper > from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going > mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. > http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 > _______________________________________________ > Materm-devel mailing list > Materm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/materm-devel > mrxvt home page: http://materm.sourceforge.net -- 'Pessimist' -- Optimist with experience. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Materm-devel mailing list Materm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/materm-devel mrxvt home page: http://materm.sourceforge.net
