Support for 2-byte / Unicode characters

[gary]

It seems that WebBuilder "chokes" on 2-byte characters.

I write pages using English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. Beyond the CJK world, I think a few other languages use 2-byte characters.

Right now, WebBuilder doesn't seem to understand that it's a 2-byte character, and therefore acts as if the characters take up two spaces.

This scenario is the same, whether using Chinese or English Windows, and with or without IME installed.

It's just a matter of the way the 2-byte characters are rendered (input method, whether typed or pasted should not matter).

I am happy to beta-test anything that may resolve this issue.

I'm getting tired of coding every character in 5-digit Unicode. And I hate using FrontPage.

-Gary.
www.OrientalOutpost.com

[uj63]

Yes, the result of copy&paste of e.g. 你好 (ni hao) into Webuilder results in an overlay of the two characters.

[gary]

I hoped for more than 3 years that multi-byte unicode support would be added in the next version. Well, 2010 is out, and it chokes worse than ever on these unicode characters. It used to tolerate characters in a file (though hard to edit the characters themselves - and the search/replace function apparently miscounts bytes and garbles your document). Now if you save a file with unicode characters, it turns those characters into ?????????

This is actually "disimprovement".

I have to edit all of my unicode-content web files in Notepad. If a basic, low-tech text editor like Notepad can handle this, why not a proper editor like WeBuilder?

-Gary.
www.OrientalOutpost.com