Re: Request for discussion - how to make MC unicode capable

[Thomas Dickey <dickey his com>]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 14:57 +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote:

> In case of Unicode, the new concept is distinction between bytes and
> characters.  Many functions need to be checked that they don't mix them.
> It's totally impractical to write a preprocessor conditional every time
> something is changed.  It's better to change to code for Unicode support
> and then think how to provide backward compatibility for the whole
> source tree with minimal changes throughout the code.

That's what I did with dialog: the largest change was to make editing
of a multibyte/multicolumn string work properly.  In doing that, I added
useful functions that could be reused to make forms line up, etc.

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