[utf-8] joe-3.0 supports UTF-8

[Elias Martenson]

lör 2004-04-24 klockan 00.19 skrev Behdad Esfahbod:
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Alexander Winston wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 21:34 +0200, Koblinger Egmont wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > joe-3.0 has just been released and is available from
> > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/joe-editor/
> > >
> > > One of its new features is UTF-8 support. Yeah! :-)
> > >
> > > So please remove it from the BadSoftware page.
> > > Thx!
> >
> > Excellent! I have removed it. Thank you for the notice! :)
> 
> Well, ummm, ...
> 
> I just tested it, just a small problem for now:  while it uses
> wcwidth and so accounts zero width for ZWNJ, but does not remove
> it from the output, so things get messy.  In short:  It does not
> remove zero-width stuff...  (these get removed in the bidi
> algorithm in an ideal world).

Actually, Joe still belongs on the BadSoftware list. Just just tried the
latest version and it totally breaks with any non-BMP characters. I'm
re-adding it to the BMP-only bad software page for now, although it is
my opinion that these should not be separate.

Elias