file encoding, the sequel: what about ANSI?
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#15 file encoding, the sequel: what about ANSI?
I probably should have exposed this problem at the same
time as the utf8 problem, but here goes anyway.
Xin does not handle correctly ANSI characters that fall
beyond the ASCII range.
Most of my (xml) files are using ANSI enconding - I think
this is the right way to refer to Window's default
encoding.
Since I'm portuguese and using modern windows,
that's "win-1252" encoding.
Since the text contained inside the XML is portuguese,
that means that it contains non ASCII characters,
like "ç" and such.
The problem: 1) when such a character exist in a file,
Xin shows it as a square; 2) when I insert such a
character in the text, Xin saves it as a unicode
character.
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The behavior is expected, but I suppose incorrect.
ANSI right now is really false advertising in Xin, since it
doesn't allow the user to select a codepage. The underlying
support is there, but the UI is not hooked up.
I won't be looking into this in the near future. Right now
I'm afraid international support is really unicode only.