[Gambas-user] Draw.Text problem with control chars

[Doriano Blengino]

Kadaitcha Man ha scritto:
> On 31 January 2010 22:14, Doriano Blengino
> <doriano.blengino at ...1909...> wrote:
>   
>> Kad Mann ha scritto:
>>     
>>> Doriano Blengino wrote:
>>>       
>>>> A tab width is normally eight spaces
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Every single one of my cites say you're completely wrong.
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_key
>>> www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/268538/tab-versus-space-indentation-in-c
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/119562/tabs-versus-spaces-in-python-programming
>>> http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_spaces_is_a_tab
>>> http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_and_how_do_you_indent_to_begin_a_paragraph
>>> http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/mail-archive/msg00000.html
>>>       
>> Open a console, type "cat" followed by enter. Press the tab key and look
>> where the cursor goes.
>>     
>
> lol - they are tab columns, not tabs.
>   
I really don't understand you. I went to read your "cites". From 
wikipedia (your first link):

> unclear if any popular printers implemented this. Instead it was 
> rather quickly replaced with fixed tab stops, at every multiple of 8 
> characters horizontally and every 6 lines vertically, so they simply 
> became a form of data compression,
 From your second link:
> On defaultly-configured Unix systems, and on ancient dumb terminals 
> and teletypes, the tradition has been for the TAB character to mean 
> ``move to the right until the current column is a multiple of 8.'' (As 
> it happens, this is how Netscape interprets TAB inside <PRE> as well.) 
> This is also the default in the two most popular Unix editors, Emacs 
> and vi. 
 From your last link:
> The draft reads:
>
>     For this proposal, a TAB should be counted as exactly four spaces.
>
> That is wrong. TAB is worth 8 spaces if anything. Anyway, mixing tabs
>   
So, while it is true that someone else prefers 4 spaces, or 5, or 
whatever, there is a lot of people, and history, that say that a tab is 
eight spaces wide. Therefore, I am not "completely wrong". Moreover, you 
still confuse tabulators with indentation, which is traditionally matter 
of religious war; but, staying there, even Linux Torwalds says 
"indentation is 8 characters" (read, man, read...).

You have an exquisite understanding of english, but perhaps lack the 
understanding of concepts; more likely, you simply read too fast.

BTW, I wrote to you privately some days ago - did you receive my email?
BTW2: where do you live, if you care? Just my curiosity... it helps me 
to imagine a real person behind these emails.

Regards,
Doriano