add multibyte support. increased vim.js compiled size from 25MB to 44MB. #25
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I remembered that there are utf8 related functions in emscripten js libararies. Have you checked out?
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Yes, I saw those, but at least for the one called from Pointer_stringify, there were bugs, so I used the custom one instead. The code looks quite similar.
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What kind of bugs are they? If they are general, you might report them.
On the other hand, we can also use C code in Vim, if that's not hard. Because the code will be generated in ASM.js, which are likely to be faster than manually written JS.
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When I use Pointer_stringify, the line containing UTF-8 characters shows up blank.
It does show up if I move the cursor over the characters one by one.
It might be something about the state of the UTF-8 decoder becoming wrong, but I haven't looked into it deeply yet. I should report a bug to emscripten once I figure out the details.
I could try to call the UTF8 function directly without going through Pointer_stringify. Also, I can try the function for serializing to UTF-8 since I didn't try that one.
Yes, we could also use C code, but is more work for me since this already looks fast and is tested.
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The problem could be that our string is not null terminated. Now I used the function UTF8ArrayToString instead of Pointer_stringify on a null terminated array and it seems to work fine.
Now I am looking to see if I can make it work with emscripten functions also the other way around.
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Ok, I made it work using emscripten UTF8 functions. The problem was just with null termination.
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That's still a few more megabytes. The online version is supposed to be a fast demo, and I don't think this feature is worth it. Although I do think it'll be useful to include this in the NW.js version. |
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Can you squash your commits? |
Increased vim.js compiled size from 25MB to 44MB. It is disabled by default. Uses builtin emscripten UTF8 functions.
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Ok, I squashed them. I rebased the other two pull requests as well. |
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I will look into it today. Maybe it's not necessary. Sorry for taking so long to respond.
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Closing this since #45 now includes it. |
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Also fix a small bug about EM_DIR in build.sh.