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Alexandre Prokoudine
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Hi,

I was reminded by a RU user recently that Audacity still uses a
transliterated list of languages on startup and in preferences dialog.
Are we unicode enough :) to move over and provide names of languages
without these artificial ASCII limitations?

Alexandre

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Richard Ash (audacity-help)
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On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 23:37 +0200, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> I was reminded by a RU user recently that Audacity still uses a
> transliterated list of languages on startup and in preferences dialog.
> Are we unicode enough :) to move over and provide names of languages
> without these artificial ASCII limitations?

I'm not sure our toolchains are. I'm not quite sure how I'd go about
creating a file with unicode strings in it, and I'm under the impression
that it won't compile on all platforms if we do.

I know GCC will will accept UTF-8 source files, but I suspect that
Visual Studio chokes on them. I'm not sure whether there is a reverse
case.

We are also still building ASCII for legacy windows system, which may be
a problem.

Richard


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Richard Ash wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 23:37 +0200, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
>    
>> I was reminded by a RU user recently that Audacity still uses a
>> transliterated list of languages on startup and in preferences dialog.
>> Are we unicode enough :) to move over and provide names of languages
>> without these artificial ASCII limitations?
>>      
>
> I'm not sure our toolchains are. I'm not quite sure how I'd go about
> creating a file with unicode strings in it, and I'm under the impression
> that it won't compile on all platforms if we do.
>
> I know GCC will will accept UTF-8 source files, but I suspect that
> Visual Studio chokes on them. I'm not sure whether there is a reverse
> case.
>
> We are also still building ASCII for legacy windows system, which may be
> a problem.
>    
Visual Studio 2005 understands UTF-8 encoded files (with BOM). Both
source code editor and compiler do.

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