On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Örn Hansen wrote:

From: Örn Hansen <orn.hansen@swipnet.se>

I've noticed one odd thing about Quanta Plus, that is available through apt4suse download. There is no support for editing Unicode files, it will always revert to them as latin, no matter what the locale is.

I assume the cause of it would not only lie in the apt4suse download or compilation (except of UTF-8 is already implemented, just not enabled during compilation) but in the source code from quanta.sourceforge.net.

Any way to change this behaviour?

I've personally worked on adding Unicode (UTF-8) support to pine and pico, and from this I know that if the program is not written to support unicode from the beginning, it is likely to be a huge job for the programmer to find a way to support it. Some ideas on how to do it can be found in the patches at: http://www.suse.de/~bk/pine/iconv/FAQ.html I suspect (hot having checked a the source code of Quanta Plus) that in the worst case which might be a multi-man-week effort for a skilled programmer in C++ who is not hesitant to learn a new world of charater coding (or learn the internals of different program, if he knows Unicode already but not Quanta) Bernhard