On 29-05-2023 06:15, 0xtrzy@wp.pl wrote:
> Hello
> dusk os can use utf8?
> 
> Marek

Hi Marek! 2 things:
1st, an answer to your question, not yet! The text is currently rendered 
by the bios text mode, so no utf-8 yet.
2nd, you might have meant to send this to the list, which i have CC'ed, :>

-- 
Arcade Wise (they/them)
<arcades.agency>

On Mon, May 29, 2023, at 6:29 PM, Arcade Wise wrote:
> On 29-05-2023 06:15, 0xtrzy@wp.pl wrote:
>> Hello
>> dusk os can use utf8?
>> 
>> Marek
>
> Hi Marek! 2 things:
> 1st, an answer to your question, not yet! The text is currently rendered 
> by the bios text mode, so no utf-8 yet.
> 2nd, you might have meant to send this to the list, which i have CC'ed, :>
>
> -- 
> Arcade Wise (they/them)
> <arcades.agency>

From the way I see it, I don't think Dusk OS will ever support utf-8 or any kind
of multibyte encoding in its core routines or applications (text editors, etc.).
Things are so much simpler when you can assume that one byte is one character!

That being said, some of its stated primary goals such as read a PDF require
unicode support, so I guess that at some point, library to handle unicode will
be added to Dusk OS, but only to be used in the context of those leaf[1]
applications.

Regards,
Virgil

[1]: I mean applications that are an end into itself and not a means to another
end. For example, the text editor is not a leaf because it's needed to work on
Dusk.