IDE 1.6.6: non-ascii characters are no longer displayed properly
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Description
I'm working with TFT displays and need to have readable cyrillic strings in code. Prior 1.6.6, having my files in win-1251 encoding and adding preproc.substitute_unicode=false in preferences.txt worked fine for me. But since upgrade, IDE shows squares instead of non-ascii chars that makes it impossible to read. Please fix.
Cyrillic in IDE 1.6.6
Same file in Sublime text editor
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the problem in Arduino IDE 1.6.6 with a win-1251 file and preproc.substitute_unicode=false in preferences.txt. Compare the IDE display with the supplied Sublime Text example; done means Cyrillic and other non-ASCII characters render as readable glyphs instead of squares.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100