On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 11:37:09AM -0400, Jim Park wrote: > Logistically, even if I wanted to do it, with the time constraints I > have, you will have to wait at least a year. The amount of code > change to get the Unicode support into NSIS by sheer number of lines > is many more times than the amount of change the main NSIS went > through over the whole of last year. You are talking about reading > through 80,000 lines of C code and making changes to make the Unicode > version work, not to mention the conversion of NSH files and language > files to Unicode versions which sometimes was not a straight change > due to systems calls or file access. But still it was simpler than > any of the other options and I'm willing to bet that if I had to start > all over again with a transparent Unicode / Win9x support as my goal, > I would not have been able to finish it in the time I had. But if > someone leverages off what I've already done, maybe they can do it a > bit faster? I can imagine something quick and dirty like creating two > exehead's for the installer that switches depending on the OS. Even > this change will take some time to do and no guarantee that the NSIS > group will take it. The scarier part of this change is that it will > fork the code so much that I don't think I'll be able to maintain the > code to be in sync with the main NSIS. It would probably end up being > a forked and frozen version. (Frozen usually means abandoned in the > open source world.) So it really has to be done by the main NSIS guys > with the committment that they will support it going forward.
I'm not highly skilled in either win32 or NSIS, so excuse me if I say something stupid but; how can an additional charset imply so much work? NSIS supports a lot of charsets for different languages already. It feeds text with a given charset and tells the OS which charset is it. Perhaps the problem is not about Unicode but about wide chars? (in which case, I wonder why they use utf-16 instead of utf-8). -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
