Unicode SynEdit

This is the Unicode version of SynEdit, which is derived from the ANSI version that can be found on the SynEdit website.

Please, don't contact me directly for UniSynEdit, use the mailing lists or the bug tracker.

Features of Current Version

Unicode support for Windows&Linux without depending on any additional library or component package.
Added new unit SynUnicode.pas that contains Unicode versions of often used string-functions.
It's TWideStrings & TWideStringsList-classes were taken from JCL, adapted to be cross-plattform and generate smaller executables.
Optional symbiosis with TntWare Unicode-controls.
- TntWare Unicode-controls provide Unicode property-editors at design-time (only needed for D5-D7). To use them choose the design-time package with a TNT-suffix in the name.
- If you use the SynEdit_D*_TNT package you need the modified TntWare Unicode package that adds support for Unicode exceptions.
Support of Unicode in Win9X.
All highlighters were translated. (They use now collision free hashing)
All additional SynEdit components are unicode-enabled.
Saving/loading files as UTF-8, UTF-16 or Ansi. (see LoadFromFile/SaveToFile in SynUnicode.pas)

Known Issues

This is not really a SynEdit issue: The TeX-Exporter doesn't support Unicode as LaTeX2e doesn't support it either.
There are many half-backed solutions but none offers real Unicode support. LaTeX 3 is said to support this (whenever it is released). Note: RTF and HTML exporters fully support Unicode.
Complex scripts and languages with ligatures are not always rendered as they should. This includes languages such as Tamil or Arabic. To support them UniScribe and a major rewrite is necessary since the initial SynEdit was not designed with Unicode in mind.

What's New?

This is a rough summary of changes since the first version of UniSynEdit, not just the changes for the last releases.

September 14, 2008: Preliminary support for Delphi 2009
All Demos were ported to work with UniSynEdit.
SynGen now creates highlighters compatible with UniSynEdit and was enhanced to support collision free hashing and better FuncXXX naming (now is derived from the keyword instead of the key).
All fixes from ANSI version were applied.
All other fixes for Unicode SynEdit are included as well, for details see CVS log.
Some fixes to SynGen
D4Demo problem under Delphi 5 fixed
Some Delphi 2005 fixes
Wide glyphs like in Asian (Chinese, Korean, Japanese) languages now render correctly.
Usage of UniScribe for improved font handling, drawing and less flicker.

Reporting Bugs

If you want to report bugs, please use the Bugtracker at Sourceforge.
Do not forget to choose "Unicode"-category in the submission-form, so we know the bug is specific to the Unicode version of SynEdit.

License

The license is the same as for the ANSI version of SynEdit, which is a dual GPL/MPL license.

Important Change

Since the version from January 30, 2008 some string constants were changed to allow saving of highlighter settings to XML. For compatibility a unit with the old string constants is provided in the following ZIP-file: OldSynEditStrConst.zip. Note though that it will not be maintained.

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September 28, 2009

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