[Scummvm-devel] Including README translations

[Filippos Karapetis]

>
> When I open the READMEs as I download them from ScummVM's git repository,
> then I get wrong characters. Windows seems by default fall back to ANSI.
> Only when three extra bytes are added at the beginning of the file, it can
> reliably detect that it is a UTF-8 file.
>

What version of Windows are you using? The README works fine with Notepad
for me, both with Windows 7 and Windows XP.
It worked correctly for fuzzie with Windows 2000.


WHAT?!? ScummVM is no more compatible to Win98? That's a scandal for me; I
> thought it would be compatible even to Win95.


It still is compatible, that was a mistake (though it isn't tested if it
still runs under Win9x by any developer).

  Some days ago I tested ScummVM under Win ME (very similiar to 98) and it
> ran just fine.


Good, it still does.

Honestly though, who uses Windows 9x nowadays? It's a dead OS, Windows 98
was released more than 13 years ago and ME...
well... ME was a nightmare (released more than 11 years ago). Perhaps
it's time to change? :)


>   Anyway, I don't know what to do about the encoding problem for these old
> systems other than what I suggested which would make it easiest to convert
> it to ANSI for all Windows systems.
>

Why? These people can just use an editor that supports Unicode files.
e.g. Notepad++ is free, its older versions still run under 98 and it does
support Unicode files.

Regards
Filippos

-- 
"Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes" - Oscar Wilde
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