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When typing non latin chars in REPL - get "¼Ð³Ð¼Ð¾ÑÐ" #51

Closed Nyanraltotlapun closed 5 years ago

Nyanraltotlapun commented 5 years ago

When typing non latin chars in REPL - get "¼Ð³Ð¼Ð¾ÑÐ" Steps to reproduce:

  1. Install Dr. Racket
  2. raco pkg install rash
  3. run in terminal emulator racket -l rash/repl
  4. try to type non latin chars

Tested on Manjaro Linux and FreeBSD in xterm qterminal and xfce terminal

willghatch commented 5 years ago

Have you done raco pkg install readline-gpl? If not does it fix the problem?

The issue is in the documentation, but it's not very obviously placed. I'll try to make it more obvious. In the future I plan a better fix (by using a different line editor).

willghatch commented 5 years ago

I've tried to make the issue stand out a little better in the documentation. Would it be more helpful if there were a more clear FAQ section, perhaps?

Nyanraltotlapun commented 5 years ago

Have you done raco pkg install readline-gpl? If not does it fix the problem?

Yes, it is fix the problem. Thank you!

Would it be more helpful if there were a more clear FAQ section, perhaps?

I think reasonable to write this in installation instruction. So user will be aware as soon as possible.

I wonder is there a really license issue witch readline? Because it is already installed in the system and user already accepted gpl license...

willghatch commented 5 years ago

On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 10:37:07PM -0700, Nyanraltotlapun wrote:

Would it be more helpful if there were a more clear FAQ section, perhaps?

I think reasonable to write this in installation instruction. So user will be aware as soon as possible.

That's a good point. It is now there.

I wonder is there a really license issue witch readline? Because it is already installed in the system and user already accepted gpl license...

I think that distributing it in such a way that it will always link against a GPL-licensed library would require it to be GPL-ed. But I'm not a lawyer. At any rate, the Racket leaders want to relicense to permissive licenses (Apache/MIT or something).

As far as line editing goes, though, my medium-term plan is to write a new line editor for Racket (possibly re-purposing one of the Remacs or Rmacs packages).

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