UTF-8 Support about connectbot HOT 9 CLOSED

I agree that we want to support UTF-8 encoding. Unfortunately 
internationalization
isn't supported yet in the Android SDK.

However, it appears that you want this for line drawing, et al., present in 
finch.
We'll take a look at it.

Though true UTF-8 would be best, support for the line-drawing would also help 
with
ncmpc, nagcon, mutt (see threads), and more. As such, I'd like to add my "go 
get 'em"
encouragement to this issue.

I've done a rough start on parts of this. Only the output part, but it seems to 
work
for my UTF-8 screen session.

This is also my very first Android code, so please be gentle when you comment. 
:)

Patch against r141 attached.

Sorry. That version will fail on a fresh install. This one should be a bit 
better.

Passing encoding to the server isn't difficult. The problems are:

1) Combining characters aren't handled correctly now
   a) They have zero width so shouldn't be factored into drawing
   b) The buffer code needs to be 32-bit to handle Unicode (which increases the
memory footprint of the client)

2) Codepoints not in the Monotype font are substituted
   a) Chinese characters are drawn at 1.5x the width of the Monotype characters and
they should be 2x width
   b) There appears to be no way to control font substitution

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This issue seems to be resolved in 
ConnectBot-svn-r203.apk
if I set the encoding to UTF-8 in the host settings menu.

I changed the default to UTF-8 in the latest builds.

I also have a branch that handles wide characters correctly. I even added 
Chinese
character drawing rules for GBK and Big5 locales. I've attached a picture 
showing
what it looks like when connecting to lqqm.net

If anyone has pointers to rules that are more granular than if not ASCII, draw 
it
full-width.

I put in wide character support in r382, so this is pretty much closed. The 
Chinese
drawing thing might need some work, but I've opened Issue 179 to track that.