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

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> From: "Ethan A Merritt" <me...@uw...>
> To: "beta" <gnu...@li...>
> Cc: "Tatsuro MATSUOKA" <tma...@ya...>
> Date: 2024/08/04 日 03:37
> Subject: Re: format of win/README-Windows-jp.txt
> 
> 
> 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   
> 

> 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?

README-Windows-ja.txt is for users to read and for the binary distribution.
README.win-ja is for Japanese localization but it is outdated and is not included in binary distribution.
Only README-Windows-ja.txt is needed and README.win-ja is not necessary.


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

It is better to be reverted. Sorry for my previous incorrect writing.

Tatsuro