Re: [9fans] UTF-8 characters in acme

2021-09-09 Thread revcomninos
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Re: [9fans] UTF-8 characters in acme

2021-09-09 Thread Steve Simon
pretty much the only major change to sam since 87 was (i believe) the migration from ASCII (on Unix v10 and p9 Ed1) to utf-8. if you are not seeing unicode characters it is most probably because you don’t have a font with the appropriate glyphs. -Steve

Re: [9fans] UTF-8 characters in acme

2021-09-09 Thread revcomninos
Thanks for clarifying. Now why does sam not display utf-8 characters on my setup?  -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T0d54d4b593281935-M73d5efdb47296d7869a25279 Delivery options:

Re: [9fans] UTF-8 characters in acme

2021-09-09 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Thu, Sep 9, 2021, at 1:46 PM, revcomni...@gmail.com wrote: > I came to this impression after reading: > "Sam edits uninterpreted ASCII text." > http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/ Understandable, but you missed the last paragraph of the abstract, which reads, "This paper is

Re: [9fans] UTF-8 characters in acme

2021-09-09 Thread revcomninos
I came to this impression after reading: "Sam edits uninterpreted ASCII text." http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/ -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T0d54d4b593281935-Mf25e9d16a3b91bb3c67546e2 Delivery

Re: [9fans] UTF-8 characters in acme

2021-09-09 Thread Maurizio Boriani
umbrati...@prosimetrum.com writes: >> How to write UTF-8 caracters > > keyboard(6) works very well! What pleasantly! Compose key and mnemonics are fantastic idea! -- Maurizio Boriani PGP key: 0xCC0FBF8F -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink:

Re: [9fans] UTF-8 characters in acme

2021-09-07 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
Seems rather unlikely considering that UTF-8 was originally invented for Plan 9? Turns out it is the same as anywhere else in Plan 9 - tap ALT (not hold) then the letter x then the hex code for the rune you are trying to enter and a semicolon (if fewer than 6 hexadecimal nybbles).

Re: [9fans] UTF-8 characters in acme

2021-09-07 Thread revcomninos
I was under the impression you could only use ASCII. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T0d54d4b593281935-Med338a73860dc960cac21090 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] UTF-8 characters in acme

2021-09-07 Thread umbraticus
> How to write UTF-8 caracters keyboard(6) -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T0d54d4b593281935-Mb9d3caaf9c167393db658f43 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

[9fans] UTF-8 characters in acme

2021-09-07 Thread Maurizio Boriani
Hi all, may be a dummy question: How to write UTF-8 caracters in acme? Thanks in advance, -- Maurizio Boriani PGP key: 0xCC0FBF8F -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T0d54d4b593281935-M9ca70d5498411227cb9608b2