Stefan Dösinger stefan@codeweavers.com writes:
Correct the umlauts for utf8, this seems to be the encoding everyone uses
Actually the encoding for source files is Latin-1 at the moment. This should probably be changed once we convert resources to utf-8, to make all files use the same encoding.
"Alexandre Julliard" julliard@winehq.org wrote:
Correct the umlauts for utf8, this seems to be the encoding everyone uses
Actually the encoding for source files is Latin-1 at the moment. This should probably be changed once we convert resources to utf-8, to make all files use the same encoding.
I'd say that since converting resources to UTF-8 makes them not compatible with any other resource compiler except wrc, IMO that's a bad idea. I personally time from time edit Wine resources in Visual Studio and compile them with rc.exe from PSDK and Visual Studio for testing. Also, there are not much editors in the Windows world that support UTF-8, since it's a multibyte encoding and in general is very cumbersome encoding to work with. Please don't do that.
Hi Dmitry,
On 11/01/07, Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@codeweavers.com wrote:
I'd say that since converting resources to UTF-8 makes them not compatible with any other resource compiler except wrc, IMO that's a bad idea
At least one free resource compiler that claims to support UTF-8: http://www.jorgon.freeserve.co.uk/#rc
Also, there are not much editors in the Windows world that support UTF-8, since it's a multibyte encoding and in general is very cumbersome encoding to work with. Please don't do that.
At least Notepad on Windows XP does support UTF-8.
-- Ph.
"Phil Krylov" phil.krylov@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/01/07, Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@codeweavers.com wrote:
I'd say that since converting resources to UTF-8 makes them not compatible with any other resource compiler except wrc, IMO that's a bad idea
At least one free resource compiler that claims to support UTF-8: http://www.jorgon.freeserve.co.uk/#rc
Unfortunately it's not Microsoft's rc.exe, i.e. not something I'm interested to compare wrc output/compatibility with.
Also, there are not much editors in the Windows world that support UTF-8, since it's a multibyte encoding and in general is very cumbersome encoding to work with. Please don't do that.
At least Notepad on Windows XP does support UTF-8.
If that was supposed to be a joke I didn't buy it.
Hi Dmitry,
On 11/01/07, Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@codeweavers.com wrote:
At least one free resource compiler that claims to support UTF-8: http://www.jorgon.freeserve.co.uk/#rc
Unfortunately it's not Microsoft's rc.exe, i.e. not something I'm interested to compare wrc output/compatibility with.
Agreed.
Also, there are not much editors in the Windows world that support UTF-8, since it's a multibyte encoding and in general is very cumbersome encoding to work with. Please don't do that.
At least Notepad on Windows XP does support UTF-8.
If that was supposed to be a joke I didn't buy it.
No it was not a joke. I only tried to say that there is a UTF-8 enabled editor included in standard Windows distribution. If you don't like Notepad (yes, it's very limited) you can always find another editor (I use Vim in Windows as well as in Unices). In other words, your second reason to not switch to UTF-8 does not look like a good reason to me. But the first one does.
-- Ph.
"Dmitry Timoshkov" dmitry@codeweavers.com writes:
I'd say that since converting resources to UTF-8 makes them not compatible with any other resource compiler except wrc, IMO that's a bad idea. I personally time from time edit Wine resources in Visual Studio and compile them with rc.exe from PSDK and Visual Studio for testing. Also, there are not much editors in the Windows world that support UTF-8, since it's a multibyte encoding and in general is very cumbersome encoding to work with. Please don't do that.
Well, yes, you'd have to remember to run iconv on the file when you want to use it on Windows. OTOH it makes it easier to mail patches, and more importantly to detect when the encoding has been mangled by the mailer, which is IMO a more frequent operation than compiling them under Windows.
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