utf8 CharacterEncoding - needed for deplay?

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A collection of helpful Mathematica (11.3) bits for the GPR at my local university

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utf8 CharacterEncoding - needed for deplay? #9

Open groenkek opened 5 years ago

groenkek commented 5 years ago

The current deplay script mentions the need to use the utf-8 CharacterEncoding - was it a necessity for the file to load after "deployment" or is it just a momentarily requirement for the copy?

[ ] does it stilll work even if ignored?
[ ] use sub-package-loading to load the original package with proper encoding by using a load.m that only uses encoding-invariant characters.

groenkek commented 5 years ago

How did I do it in the past? Ofcourse only added $CharacterEncoding="UTF-8" into $UserBaseDirectory/Kernel/init.m

groenkek commented 5 years ago

An automatic installation would include:

Has this installer not been used yet
Does the System support UTF-8
Is the SystemEncoding different from Encoding (= is there already a different encoding command in use?)
Append $CharacterEncoding = bla bla to $UserDirectoryBase/kernel/init.m
Quit[], so that the changes will be loaded on next execution

groenkek commented 5 years ago

The thing is, on some systems, like on my partners mac laptop, the system character encoding is set to utf8, which does not require a manual entry into the user space kernel.m, but I need to on my windows. Not really a blocker really