[Scilab-users] Re : calendar does not work

[sgougeon at free.fr]

Hello Heinz,

You are likely using a quite restricted font for the Scilab console.
May be your system's one as the default.
These characters are non-breakable spaces ascii(160) <=> ascii([194 160]),
that are not US-ASCII but nevertheless rather standard.
You can check in your Scilab preferences, in the Fonts section:
With the font chooser, check "Monospaced" checkbox to list only monospaced
fonts. This is mandatory to keep matrices aligned, etc.
Then, the "Monospaced" or "Consolas" fonts are good choices.
They should include all latin-like fonts, and many non-latin ones
like cyrillic, arabic, japanese, etc. And of course the non-breakable spaces.

The support of extended UTF-8 characters has been added in Scilab 6.1.0
for the Scilab Advanced console (NW) and Raw console (NWNI) modes.
Documenting it with adding a  "Font How-to" section to the --> help console page
is on the TODO list, for all STD NW and NWNI Scilab modes ;-)

Every feedback is welcome about this char(160) case, noticeably from users
using non-latin fonts.
ascii(160) have been substituted to ascii(32) in calendar() in order to prevent
lines wrapping for the calendar block of lines. But the "risk" to have a so
narrow console is quite low, and we can keep normal spaces if it looks
at last preferable.

Regards
Samuel

----- Mail d'origine -----
De: Heinz Nabielek <heinznabielek at icloud.com>
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Envoyé: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 00:10:23 +0200 (CEST)
Objet: [Scilab-users] calendar does not work

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What had happened? Scilab 6.1 under macOS Catalina 10.15.6

Heinz
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