TSE displaying UFT8 characters properly

[Daniel Terhell]

Hello group,

I have several versions of TSE installed. One version of TSE 4.40 that I have installed actually displays UTF8 accent characters properly. All other versions don't.

I would like to have this behavior with the latest version of TSE but I have forgotten what I have done to make this work. It could have been a macro (though probably not unicode.s),  or a setting. From what I recall this was only possible with g32.exe and not with e32.exe but unfortunately I have forgotten all the details.

Can anyone give me a hint on what I can do to have UTF8 character displayed properly ?

TIA

[Carlo Hogeveen]

The only way to display UTF-8 in TSE is to install the
Unicode
Status
UniView
extensions from my website:
https://ecarlo.nl/tse/ToolsAndExtensions.html

Carlo

[Daniel Terhell]

The problem that I am having is that the macro does not work on v4.50 but does work well on v4.40.

I am typing an á but what it shows is ß

I tried both v2.6 and 2.7. Do you have any suggestions ?

Thanks

[Carlo Hogeveen]

> I am typing an á but what it shows is ß

> Do you have any suggestions ?

Sure.
Your example makes it very likely that the problem is that your font is "Terminal".
It is my bad, that in Uniview I only documented that I advise the Courier New font, and did not explicitly document that it is incompatible with the "Terminal" font.
Try changing your TSE font.
Feel free to ask further questions,

Carlo

[Daniel Terhell]

I was using Consolas. Switching to Courier new does not fix the  problem.

However, I did not install uniview.s (only status.s and unicode.s). Do I need uniview as well ?

[Carlo Hogeveen]

> I was using Consolas. Switching to Courier new does not fix the problem.
> However, I did not install uniview.s (only status.s and unicode.s). Do I need uniview as well ?

Not for the typing an "á" and seeing a "ß" problem.
GUI TSE (g32.exe) with a not-Terminal font should already show an "á" without any macro-help.
My next suspect would be an autoloaded macro that sets the current font's _FONT_OEM_ flag.
Try purging loaded macros until the problem disappears?
Possible macro culprits from my website are Ansi2OEM and OEMtoggle.

When you need the UniView extension:
When loading and saving a file that has UTF-8 encoded characters, the Unicode macro converts them to and from either code page 1252, which is GUI TSE's default for all fonts but Terminal, or a characters's Unicode code point (a number) quoted between characters 127.
Characters in code page 1252, like "á" are converted and shown as-is.
The quoted Unicode code points will be shown as one character when the UniView extension is installed.
For example, UniView will show 263A as a black-and-white ☺.
For reasons I will happily explain in extensive detail ☺ if someone wonders, UniView does not work for the current line unless the TSE buffer is in read-only mode.

Carlo