[Scid-users] More on UTF-8 etc. encoding of Scid...

2008-04-12 Thread Hans Eriksson
Hello all, After checking with older versions of Scid (Scid 3.6.18,Scid 3.6.14,,, etc.) I saw that it was needed to use "Language for non-Unicode programs" and a reboot OR use Applocale to select the wanted Scid language without reboot,so obviously if the *.lng Scid languages are saved as UTF-8 (w

Re: [Scid-users] On UTF-8 and Scid's help file...

2008-04-12 Thread Pascal Georges
Hi, 2008/4/12, Hans Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > and can easily be reproduced like I saw in Scid 3.6.23 rc5 where > the Swedish vowels "ÅÄÖ" ("åäö" lower case) that are placed after a-z in > the Swedish alphabet IS reproduced as two strange looking characters > that are not > displayed corr

[Scid-users] On UTF-8 and Scid's help file...

2008-04-12 Thread Hans Eriksson
Hello all, If you look at the language support of Windows in this Microsoft homepage of "Locale Identifier Constants and Strings" here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms776260.aspx you can easily see that Windows by default has VERY bad support of Unicode,since only some languages id e

[Scid-users] Scid versus other databases

2008-04-12 Thread Michal Rudolf
It is great to see Scid continued, specially that it seems there is no other free alternatives (ChessX seems more or less dead these days, as it is too big project for me to continue without help). It seems that thanks to Pascal's work Scid is finding more users and contributors. My suggestion

Re: [Scid-users] Scid-pg's Documentation Project -- Report no 20080412

2008-04-12 Thread Pascal Georges
-- very often is this how to forgotten ! > * signature line > > My own preference should go for that kind of page to wrap the > documentation > pages (i.e. for scid-pg's home page), but something like Ruby On Rails > [ror] > might be nice too. > > == Concluding

[Scid-users] Scid-pg's Documentation Project -- Report no 20080412

2008-04-12 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
ted program, one that I could sell to only one friend. All the other ones preferred to sell up their souls... Kindest regards, Benoit St-Pierre, Montréal, 20080412 == References == [ama] http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ [dta] http://www.devon-technologies.com/support/academy/index.ht

Re: [Scid-users] Please check UTF 8

2008-04-12 Thread Alexander Wagner
pgeorges wrote: Hi! > There were still small problems due to differences between Linux and > Windows. So I handled both cases in a RC5 that I tested on my Linux > system (mine is utf-8) and Windows XP. Just for me to understand: How could it be that DOS has "another" UTF-8 than linux? Or in

Re: [Scid-users] Please check UTF 8

2008-04-12 Thread Michal Rudolf
Pascal Georges, sobota, 12 kwietnia 2008: >What I don't understand is why >"encoding system utf-8" does not switch windows to unicode. Working on another project, I found that Windows Unicode support is at least buggy (or non-working in some cases), at least up to Windows XP. I don't know about

Re: [Scid-users] Please check UTF 8

2008-04-12 Thread Pascal Georges
Windows has UTF fonts, but if you run tclsh% encoding names You will get cp*, which is a localized code page (not utf ...). So when windows gets 2 bytes for a unicode char, it will display it as 2 chars. What I don't understand is why "encoding system utf-8" does not switch windows to unicode. The