This release line has been canceled. See for the next v2.5.0RC

I was though to not support Unicode in Fresh IDE until v3.

But provoked by @idle post here, I decided to fix the Unicode filenames support.

Unfortunately this process rapidly got out of control and as a result the whole IDE now supports not only Unicode filenames, but Unicode source files as well.

The changes in the source base are HUGE. The good is that in the process of refactoring and testing, several old bugs has been found and fixed.

But it is very likely that big amount of new bugs are introduced.

So, please, download and test this RC thoroughly. Here are the download links:

JohnFound: What do you mean by Unicode? Does that mean UTF-8, UTF-16, or multiple code pages (like DOS uses), or something else?

revolution wrote:

JohnFound: What do you mean by Unicode? Does that mean UTF-8, UTF-16, or multiple code pages (like DOS uses), or something else?

Now Fresh IDE opens, edits and saves only UTF-8 encoded files without BOM. It will not try to convert the files with another encoding.

Internally it is mix of Windows 16bit encoding (the GUI components) and UTF-8 (FeshLIb).

So on Windows you convert the UCS-2 filenames to UTF-8 internally? And from internal UTF-8 to "wide" for the GUI output?

I ask because I wonder how it handles the surrogate pairs? Those are a horrible kludge but it is what we have now.

revolution wrote:

I ask because I wonder how it handles the surrogate pairs? Those are a horrible kludge but it is what we have now.

It handles them probably buggy. And I will probably fix only the problems that causes crashes of the IDE.