World: r4wp

Fast progress

Nice. And I am glad you are continuing your work Doc.

Jerry: My Windows doesn't support CJK, I'm not sure my Linux VM supports 
those characters too...will try it.

You can add support for CJK to Windows very easily. Just check one 
radio-box in font or localization settings.

Is it possible to add such font to DOS console?

Ah, found an HowTo: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3780378/how-to-display-japanese-kanji-inside-a-cmd-window-under-windows

And now Red speaks Chinese too: http://static.red-lang.org/hello_unicode3.png

lol

Doc, does it also work in source code or only printed strings?

Henrik: look better at the screenshot. ;-)

(I've put the source of hello.red behind the console window)

Probably violates rules for legal variable names

You can use any Unicode character in your Red words.

Hello World in Chinese should probably be .. world hello and not 
hello world

I don't know Chinese, so I just took the string Jerry gave me.

You'll have to change your print string :)

I don't get any chars for Chinese, and in the Greek string third 
char is incorrect too ...

font I use is Lucida Console ...

You can use any Unicode character in your Red words.

 - ok, that was what I was looking for, as R3 can do this. Thanks.

Graham is right, In Chinese, "World Hello" is better than "Hello 
World". You can change it if you want, Doc. :-) But I saw other langauge, 
such as Falcon, use "Hello World" in Chinese to demo their unicode 
support.

Pekr: switch to Consolas which has the best range of Unicode glyphs 
support.

(you won't be able to display CJK anyway though)

I can select only two fonts there - raster, or Consolas ....

btw - Czeh version of hello world does not display any character 
correctly :-)

dunno if bug, or I should somehow adapt font, anything else, etc.

Is the source file of your Czech version UTF-8 encoded?

Third greek character incorrect
: be sure you're using latest revision.

Pekr: try typing your Czech characters in Notepad (it has excellent 
Unicode support).

(just select UTF-8 when saving)

hello.red is already UTF-8, I just added one line and saved ...

going to lunch, willing to debug, if I can get any instructions ....

Be sure you've saved it in UTF-8.

Anyway, we need more people testing Unicode support for Windows console, 
just in case we missed something.

well, anyway - how is R2 being able to read utf-8 anyway?

It reads it as a stream of bytes. As UTF-8 doesn't use null bytes 
in its encoding (except for codepoint 0), it can be fully loaded 
as string! or binary! in R2 (but you'll see garbage for non-ASCII 
characters).

If anybody can provide the UTF-8 chars (hex values)  for Hello World 
in Czech. I'll run a test.

Peter: should be "Dobr^(C3)^(BD) den sv^(C4)^(9B)t"

I've just tested it on Windows console (using Consolas font), it 
works fine.

The above string doesn't work as-is in Red though, you should pass 
the codepoints escaped instead of the UTF-8 encoding.

I noticed :-)

I haven't implemented full char! support yet, so I can't write a 
Red script to print me the right codepoint values...(char! will be 
implemented later today though).

Hello

 in many languages http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm

Good source, even Klingon is there! :-)

Hello in Klingon:

nuqneH (What do you want?)
- used when confronted by another

Code points are 00FD & 011B

I really need to learn more, my Klingon is currently limited to " 
Qapla' " only (means Goodbye).

Thanks Peter. It works for me with "Dobr^(FD) den sv^(011B)t"

Above works ... but when I write it directly in Notepad (and the 
file claims it is UTF-8), it does not work ... strange then ...

Not sure if Notepad is the best for UTF-8 work...

Pekr: it might be a BOM issue with Red loader, I don't remember testing 
it...