Dnia 2010-11-07, nie o godzinie 11:43 +0100, Alexander Wagner pisze: Well, an apparently easy solution is to set the LOCAL for the scid > startup environment. THIS is easy on Unix and AFAIK(! I don't do DOS for > a very long time now) impossible on Windows. > How about something like > export LANG=cs_CZ.ISO8859-2 > before starting Scid? A simple startup wrapper might do: > #!/bin/bash > export LANG=cs_CZ.ISO8859-2 > exec scid > I think this is not a solution because: * for power-users it is easier to convert to UTF-8 (and how many power users Scid has?) * it is too ugly and too complicated for power user.
> Therefore the maintainer decided to go for multiplatform solution, > > choosing ISO8859-2 which is broken on both platforms... > Well it is broken on Unix if you set the LOCAL to UTF8. It should of > course work if you set the correct locale. It will probably take some > time till Windows knows to handle UTF-8. Probably in Win 7? (Up to XP at > least it is broken.) > It is broken but it can be fixed easily by keeping all the data in UTF-8 (thus fixing all Unix versions) and converting to local charsets when preparing Windows installer. Of course Open Source can choose one of two paths: 1. This is free software, if something does not work for you, fix it yourself and don't bother us (here read: buy ChessBase) 2. We would like our software to be as easy to use as commercial equivalents, if it isn't, tell us and we will try to change it. I am a strong supporter of the second option, but I know many other developers prefer the first one. -- Michał Rudolf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
