DOS ain't dead - Advice me a better term for "char variant"

Laaca

Czech republic,
11.02.2023, 11:38

Advice me a better term for "char variant" (Developers)

I am working on a new feature of my text editor - fast selecting among similar characters. For now I use term "char variant" but I am affraid that it is not correct.
If you look at the screenshot, do you have some better idea how to change the window title?

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dggionco Buenos Aires - Argentina, 11.02.2023, 12:16 @ Laaca	Advice me a better term for "char variant" Post reply
	Use any of these titles; - Select character - Choose character

tkchia

11.02.2023, 14:02

@ Laaca

Advice me a better term for "char variant"

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Hello Laaca,

Apparently Wikipedia simply calls the latter set of letters "letters with diacritics" or "related characters" or "variations of letter"... (E.g. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/e ...)

Thank you!

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Laaca

Czech republic,
11.02.2023, 15:35

@ tkchia

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Yes. "Related characters" sound nice. Thanks!

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Oso2k 12.02.2023, 21:08 @ Laaca	Advice me a better term for "char variant" Post reply
	> Yes. "Related characters" sound nice. Thanks! "Accent marks"? "Alternative character"?

Berlin, Germany,
11.02.2023, 16:32

@ Laaca

Advice me a better term for "char variant"

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> I am working on a new feature of my text editor - fast selecting among
> similar characters. For now I use term "char variant" but I am affraid that
> it is not correct.
> If you look at the screenshot, do you have some better idea how to change
> the window title?
>
> [image]

By the way. The sentence "the world only DOS editor with Unicode support" is wrong: MinEd 2022.27 -- Unicode text editor

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fritz.mueller

Munich, Germany,
11.02.2023, 17:25

@ rr

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> > I am working on a new feature of my text editor - fast selecting among
> > similar characters. For now I use term "char variant" but I am affraid
> that
> > it is not correct.
> > If you look at the screenshot, do you have some better idea how to
> change
> > the window title?
> >
> > [image]
>
> By the way. The sentence "the world only DOS editor with Unicode support"
> is wrong: MinEd 2022.27 -- Unicode text editor

Please inform Berki and me a few days before publishing the update so that translations are already done. Thx.

Laaca

Czech republic,
11.02.2023, 19:17

@ rr

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> By the way. The sentence "the world only DOS editor with Unicode support"
> is wrong: MinEd 2022.27 -- Unicode text editor

Well, I know MinED and it certainly supports unicode very well - but not in the DOS version. MidED relies to terminal services of the operating system. It works nice in Linux and in Windows because their terminal windows support unicode chars. But in DOS the screen uses the VGA memory layout, VGA fonts, etc.
So yes, even in the DOS version can MinED somehow internaly work with unicode but it is not able to dislay more than 256 chars.

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