Bug 148277

Summary: wchar_t characters aren't highlighted as characters
Product: [Applications] kate Reporter: greatbunzinni
Component: syntaxAssignee: KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 2.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description greatbunzinni 2007-07-28 00:29:45 UTC 
Version:           3.4.1 (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    Ubuntu RPMs

It seems that, when a wchar_t character is written ( L'c' ), kdevelop's editor doesn't handle it as a character and therefore doesn't highlight it as such.

It would be nice if kdevelop's editor could highlight wchar_t characters as if they were characters.
Comment 1 greatbunzinni 2007-07-28 00:32:02 UTC 
Correction: characters such as L'c' seem to be, in fact, highlighted as characters. Those which aren't highlighted are those that are defined through an escape sequence, such as L'\x0000'.
Comment 2 Andreas Pakulat 2007-07-28 02:13:49 UTC 
KDevelop has no editor, it uses kate so this is a bugreport for kate.
Comment 3 Pino Toscano 2007-07-31 00:35:58 UTC 
(Really reassing to the Kate guys.)
Comment 4 Sebastian Pipping 2007-10-06 03:07:31 UTC 
Do I understand right that string are detected correctly but you want the leading "L" to be in string color as well?
Comment 5 greatbunzinni 2007-10-09 08:55:44 UTC 
Not quite. What I tried to say was that, unlike the case of regular character constants ('a', '1', etc...), if a character constant is described as a bit pattern through octal or hexadecimal encoding ('\x123', '\o123') then that notation will not be coloured as the regular, simple character constants.

To put it simply, 'a' gets the constant syntax highlighting but '\x123' and '\o123' do not.
Comment 6 Sebastian Pipping 2007-10-09 22:41:03 UTC 
Seems like I didn't read your correction, sorry. What you describe is actually a feature: people have done extra work to make escape sequences stand out.

If you don't like that I guess the best way is to "fix" the highlighter on your end. Should be a five minute thing: all you need to do is change a line in the <itemDatas>. If you feel like this is what you need but cannot get it to work I can make you a patch.
Comment 7 Sebastian Pipping 2007-10-18 15:35:52 UTC 
Feature, not a bug.