utf-8 foreign language characters acceptable?

Hi, Stephen!

> Can I type in using non-English alphabets (ie. an occasional foreign
> word mixed in amongst mainly English text) (or vice versa) (or
> entirely foreign language page)?

Cyrillic + English works well here.
I do think this is an UTF8+UTF16 issue, though...

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Only the 2 languages? MS Notepad allows saving in UTF-8, but it has no special features like autosave, multitabbed many open documents, reopen where you left off, etc... In this age of globalization, why the character set restriction?

Hi again, Stephen!

> Stephen Watson posted a new comment:
> Only the 2 languages?

As many languages as UTF-8 allows, I believe. =)

You should in principle be able to type any unicode character. See here:
https://answers.launchpad.net/rednotebook/+faq/1694.

@MyOtherHedgeFox So are you saying I *can* type a phrase or paragraph or verse entirely using my Korean keyboard, then *can* save it in the Red Notebook [as UTF-8 a la MS Notepad?] and later open it and the Korean characters are not all changed to ?????? or something else? If it can so handle multilingual input, why doesn't FAQ say so? 감사함니다! (thank you in Korean)

@Jendrik Single letter one by one inputting of code numbers might be okay for the occasional foreign character, but if I want to type in Korean or Esperanto or pinyin etc, it would be too laborious and too slow. But thanks for the heads-up on unicode char input!

Hello again, Stephen!

> @MyOtherHedgeFox So are you saying I *can* type a phrase or paragraph
> or verse entirely using my Korean keyboard, then *can* save it in the
> Red Notebook [as UTF-8 a la MS Notepad?] and later open it and the
> Korean characters are not all changed to ?????? or something else? If
> it can so handle multilingual input, why doesn't FAQ say so?

Frankly, I have not tested the situation you asked me about personally:
I only know that the usual range of UTF-8 symbols can be typed in and
saved normally.
The only question, I think, is whether the font will handle it.

There were more discussions on the matter in previous questions: if you
look through the Archive of the questions here on Launchpad, I believe
you will be able to find the answers, and the ways to work around the
difficulties.

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