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a: font: german umlauts won't work. #141

Open dertuxmalwieder opened 6 years ago

dertuxmalwieder commented 6 years ago

I press "test äöüß".

a gives me:

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as commented 6 years ago

In earlier versions, this was resolved by running the program with a -u to enable utf8 support.

In the current version, this won't work. The program will run, but will crash when a utf8 multi-byte glyph is rendered due to a known but untracked bug in the as/fonts package.

Ultimately, there should be a way to render valid utf8 runes and revert to byte representation when an error replacement character is normally encountered. I haven't looked into that yet, but there would need to be an efficient way of doing that.

In the meantime, this is a good reminder for me to write up that fonts bug and fix it when time permits so that the -u flag actually works.

dertuxmalwieder commented 6 years ago

Wouldn't it make more sense to have a support UTF-8 by default?

as commented 6 years ago

Yes, eventually. The problem of utf8 not being idempotent prevented this from being the default before (invalid utf8 is converted one way into a replacement character which is unacceptable for binary files).

The flag -u is off by default because it's not well tested yet, but it shouldn't crash when enabled anymore.

dertuxmalwieder commented 6 years ago

FYI, -u is still not quite working.

New Windows 10 machine, fresh Go installation, typing "Zäune und Bäume" ("fences and trees", does not need to make sense, does it?) inside a -u:

a_2018-06-18_23-56-50

You might see the superfluous spaces.