Character set selection
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Description
My idea is to add a way to select the character set / character encoding for various things, including input, display, file names, etc.
(You should not assume that they can or should be converted to/from Unicode, although a core might do this as an approximation (possibly with reduced functionality) if the frontend does not support the requested character set.)
In the case of keyboard input, this might also select a keyboard layout if multiples are installed for multiple character sets, and it might also affect the on-screen keyboard, etc.
(This can also be used to disable the IME, and you can also select "no character set" for keyboard input for some purposes.)
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- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue does not identify files, tests, or entry points. Start by clarifying which input, display, and filename paths are in scope and how character sets should be represented across frontends and cores. Done would require an agreed, testable design covering the requested selection behavior and its unsupported-character cases.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- frontend, internationalization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100