From: Simon Strandgaard <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>
Date: 2003-07-02T16:35:20+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Aeditor-0.1 is unleashed

On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 12:27:20 +0900, Joao Pedrosa wrote:

> I wish this project will progress well, because we
> really need a ruby IDE, and everything depends on a 
> good editor. 

;-)


> Scintilla has I18N problems, i.e.,
> it doesn't support portuguese accents (I am sure
> it affects other languages as well), so it doesn't
> cut it for me.

Scintilla is one of the less great editors.
I have been browsing its source code and it looks quite hackish 
compared to VIM.

 
> What worries me about this project is the GUI 
> independence that you are targeting, because it
> may become more difficult to support I18N well.

Rendering of unicode glyphs is interesting :-)
The 'rigth2left' direction, should be possible too.

 
> Will it support unicode ?

yes. This is a new area for me im entering. I don't know which unicode
standard(s) I should support:  utf-8, utf-16. .. others?


> What is the current status of the support for GTK+2 ?

I am conducting experiments with writting a Qt-GUI fontend in 
C++ in order to achive fast rending of glyphs. Even though I dislike
closed source applications. I embed Ruby into C++ and uses SWIG.

I started out with experimenting with Gtk1.2, but it was too strange
writting custom widgets for. If there is any GTK/GTK2 experts they are
welcome to join :-)

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Simon Strandgaard