At 02:17 -0800 2001/02/19, Ashley Yakeley wrote:
Currently I'm using the MacOS version of Hugs. The Macintosh platform is undergoing a sort of evolution towards Unix, and text files may either have traditional MacOS linebreaks (CR) or Unix linebreaks (LF). MacOS Hugs only works with the former.
I think all platform-versions of Hugs should accept all kinds of linebreaks: CR (as MacOS) LF (as Unix) CR LF (as Windows)
Actually this has already been fixed but not yet released in the form of a binary. :-) The reason this binary was not released is that it has some AppleEvent's handling I felt was experimental, and I could not get the time to check it out (and no one else it seems).
If you ever get around to supporting Unicode, you should also handle \u2028 and \u2029, but that is a separate issue.
Yes, Unicode is supported by MacOS X, which will be released towards the end of March. This MacOS X has BSD, so it should be easy to compile as a command line program. As for Hugs with GUI MacOS X: I do not know. Depends if people find it exiting find the time to develop on that platform. (Lack of supercomputer cycles is the usual human problem I think... :-)) As for Hugs support for Unicode (which may be 16 or 32 bit), I do not know: Perhaps some of the Hugs developers can inform. Hans Aberg