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On 25/06/2011 12:07, Filippos Karapetis wrote:<br>
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<div>The README works fine with Notepad for me, both with
Windows 7 and Windows XP.</div>
<div>It worked correctly for fuzzie with Windows 2000.</div>
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Well according to file(1) it's currently plain ASCII text...?<br>
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On Windows 98SE it's too large for the old version of Notepad which
has a ~32KB limit, so opens in Wordpad instead. Either way there is
no working UTF-8 support in DOS-era Windows, since WordPad *all the
way up to and including Windows 7* treats it as Latin-1, at least
without a BOM, and Windows 98SE Notepad does the same even if the
file is small enough.[1]<br>
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On NT-era Windows onwards it's fine. Notepad understands UTF-8
(tested 2K and 7) and handles "large" files; it just needs CRLF line
endings, which the release version has.<br>
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Given UTF-8 works for an 11-year-old version of Windows, I'm not
sure how compelling the argument to restrict the character set for
the benefit of a 13-year-old version is. For comparison I don't
believe xterms supported UTF-8 back then either; a quick Google puts
that at the release of XFree86 4.0 in 2000. :)<br>
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padding-left: 1ex;"> Some days ago I tested ScummVM under
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<div>Good, it still does.</div>
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Yes, the 1.3.0pre121-g6bfaddd nightly seems to be fine under
Win98SE.<br>
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Phil<br>
1. I used Markus Kuhn's UTF-8 demo as test data:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt">http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt</a><br>
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