Re: [Scid-users] Scid and non-ascii world?

2007-10-01 Thread Michal Rudolf
Marcin Kasperski, poniedziałek, 1 października 2007: >Well, maybe I open pandora box, but ... more and more often >I happen to meet PGN files containing non-ascii characters >in comments. Sometimes PGNs are UTF-8, sometimes use different >native encodings (I'm Polish so latin-2 is frequent, I read

Re: [Scid-users] Scid and non-ascii world?

2007-10-01 Thread pgeorges
Hi, Here is an excerpt of PGN standard : PGN is "Portable Game Notation", a standard designed for the representation of chess game data using ASCII text files. So I'd say it excludes UTF8, and if an UTF8 char is over 8 bits (UTF8 special character) it should be displayed as 2 "unreadable" char

[Scid-users] Scid and non-ascii world?

2007-10-01 Thread Marcin Kasperski
Well, maybe I open pandora box, but ... more and more often I happen to meet PGN files containing non-ascii characters in comments. Sometimes PGNs are UTF-8, sometimes use different native encodings (I'm Polish so latin-2 is frequent, I read Russian so ... PGN you can download from http://online