Able to merge in UTF-8 supporting fork of Linenoise into our version?

[samcv]

See here:
https://github.com/yhirose/linenoise/tree/utf8-support

Would be great if we had UTF-8 support for this, as it's really an issue especially for a programming language that can use Unicode characters.

[hoelzro]

UTF-8 support would be fantastic! I worked on this a little bit last year, but I don't remember which stumbling blocks I encountered that prevented me from finalizing the work. I'm on vacation right now, but I'll have a look after I get back.

[hoelzro]

Another fork worth looking at: https://github.com/arangodb/linenoise-ng

[hoelzro]

Other work in this area:

• linenoise to use libtermkey for keyboard input antirez/linenoise#27
• Add multibyte support antirez/linenoise#25

[hoelzro]

(Note to self: look at journal entries for late March/early April 2016)

[hoelzro]

Another fork to consider incorporating (not UTF-8 related, but still): antirez/linenoise#113

[samcv]

linenoise-ng supposedly has Windows support. That would be really awesome :) Then we can support UTF-8 and all operating systems!

[hoelzro]

@samcv I added support in the multi-byte branch - I can't merge this until LibraryMake provides a C++ equivalent to CC and other Makefile.in variables, though. I'm currently using some GCC-specific build flags to get it working on Linux, but it won't work on Windows (unless GCC is used there too)

[mcreenan]

Are the requirements from LibraryMake available now?

If not, how can I point my project to use the multi-byte version of this? I've tried to clone the repository and build it myself, but there are no "build from source" instructions and I was unable to figure it out on my own.

Thanks!

[hoelzro]

@mcreenan I just took a quick look at the LibraryMake source - from what I can tell, sadly, that information is still not available =(

If you're using GCC, cloning the repository and doing a zef install . should just work - let me know if it doesn't. If you're willing to put in the time, the C++ code could be ported to straight up C, and then I could merge the branch into master!

[mcreenan]

Ah. zef install . did work after I uninstalled the published version. Thanks!

I'll look into porting, but I haven't done C or C++ in 10+ years.