Re: How should we treat invalid UTF-8?

[Markus Mützel]

Am 05. November 2019 um 07:24 Uhr schrieb "John W. Eaton":
> On 11/4/19 11:46 PM, Andrew Janke wrote:
>
> > Guess I need to add "learn the Windows
> > terminal widget" to my long TODO list.
>
> I wouldn't work too hard on that.  I still hope to replace the existing
> Unix and Windows terminal widgets with a grand unified command window
> widget that will use Qt to handle input and output.  My plans are that
> it won't really be a "terminal" and it won't be possible to execute
> external programs in it (no big loss, you can't really do that now) and
> Octave won't be using the Windows Console or a Unix pty.  Instead it
> will read input and send it to Octave and get output back that it will
> display.  It should be much simpler and as functional as we want it to be.

It is very nice to read that this is still your goal.
Can you already estimate whether it will be ready for Octave 6.1? Or more 
likely to come later?

Markus