Re: format of win/README-Windows-jp.txt

[Ethan A M. <me...@uw...>]

On Thursday, 1 August 2024 22:01:46 PDT Tatsuro MATSUOKA via gnuplot-beta wrote:
> 
> When upgrading from gnuplot-6.0.0 to gnuplot-6.0.1, win/README-Windows-ja.txt changed from Shift_JIS to UTF-8.
> The win/README-Windows.txt file that appears at the beginning of the installer was garbled in Japanese environment.
> After converting the file to Shift_JIS, the characters are no longer garbled.
> If win/README-Windows-ja.txt is to be maintained in UTF-8 in the gnuplot repository, 
> it may be necessary to include a process in the Makefile (config/mingw/Makefile) to convert the code to Shift_JIS when making the file.
> 
> Tatsuro

I received advice, perhaps incorrect, that the Japanese localization of
Windows can now read UTF-8 files.
Please help me to understand exactly when, and for which files,
it is still necessary to provide Shift-JIS encoding.

As of December 2023 there were 3 files in the repository using Shift-JIS
    ./win/README-Windows-ja.txt
    ./src/win/README.win-ja
    ./win/Copyright-ja.txt

I thought that the first file (README-Windows-ja.txt) was for users to read.
I thought that the second file (README.win-ja) was for the binary distribution.
Is this wrong?
Are both README files needed?
Do both of them need to be in Shift-JIS for the installer to work?

All three files have been converted to UTF-8 in the development branch.
Should they be reverted to Shift-JIS?

    Ethan   


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Ethan A Merritt