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I am trying Slackware with the KDE desktop environment. The editor KWrite does not save some of the so-called IPA characters as found on this page http://www.wordreference.com/fr/Fren...unciation.aspx
For example, the character "a" with the tilde sign above it is not saved.
The editor displays it well but when I press the save button, it protests that it may not be able to save it, and it doesn't.
Before, I used to employ gedit (in Debian). That editor worked fine with the exotic characters.
Another thing that I should have mentioned is that emacs (on the same sytem) is successful at both displaying and saving the IPA characters. I wonder if my question is about the editor or about the x system or about something else.
Last edited by parviz; 07-20-2013 at 11:17 AM.
Reason: to add another note
Based on your response, I consider this thread as solved. It is now safe for me to say that the problem is with KWRite, and that KWrite perhaps requires a plugin to be able to save the exotic characters. Thanks again.
@david: kate and kwrite use the same editor kpart, so switching probably wont help.
@parviz: it sounds more like the default encoding (utf-8) that kwrite uses doesn't support IPA characters.
Look under tools/encoding for the right one. I would first try utf-16.
I tested KWrite with encoding utf-16. With that encoding, KWrite is able to save the IPA characters, but then other complications develop. For example, KWrite did not work properly under the xfce desktop environment. If I select utf-8, then KWrite works under the xfce the same way it does under kde.
Sorry. I made a mistake. KWrite is able to operate very well under xfce, and it does save IPA characters when encoding utf-16 is selected. Thank you so much!
it sounds more like the default encoding (utf-8) that kwrite uses doesn't support IPA characters.
Look under tools/encoding for the right one. I would first try utf-16.
Both encodings of Unicode support all characters. But UTF-16 is chiefly used in Windows applications, while UTF-8 is the norm for Unix, e-mail systems, and many programming languages. There may be problems using UTF-16 in Linux.
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