[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Problem select char counting (#1599)

[Matthew Brush]

On 2017-09-04 02:01 AM, lep42 wrote:
> Hello,
> I Use french font caracteres, my WM locale is defined like fr_FR.utf8.
> 
> When selecting characters  on  "none" encoded document  or ISO8859-1
> the accented characters counts for two byte instead of on.
> 
> exemple: create a document  type "é" caracter
> and select it
> 

Hi,

Even though the character can be represented in one byte (in UTF-8 or 
ISO 8859-1), Geany converts to UTF-8 for in-memory representation, and 
then it must do some processing (ex. normalization) causing it to get 
split out into the standalone e and the combining diacritical mark  ́. 
This is my guess.

That still doesn't explain why Geany shows 2 characters selected, the 
reason for that is likely that Geany[0] uses very naive byte-based code 
for the selection count rather than the number of glyphs selected.

Regards,
Matthew Brush

[0]: and/or Scintilla, the widget which provides the editor 
buffer/manipulations/information.


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