Author: Peter Schäfer
Date: 08:18:51 03/15/05
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On March 15, 2005 at 03:25:00, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >Another internationalization issue: May strings contain special chars? My engine >reports my name as "Dieter Buerssner", which is a typical transliteration to the >English alphabet of the proper "Dieter Bürßner". Shredder Classic can display >the proper spelling on my computer, but I always wondered what a user on say a >Russian or Chinese PC would see? Also, such things might be needed to be defined >for each OS seperately? Which would make them rather horrible for an engine >intended to be very portable. The engine must tell the GUI which character encoding it uses. The best choice would be Unicode (UTF-8). >Writing a GUI supporting all this will probably not be an easy task. Peter >Schäfer, would it be a lot of work to add to Jose? Probably not, because it is very similar to UCI. Which engine is going to implement it ? > I know, that you did not like >the idea of a new protocol ... I do like the idea, but I'm not so happy about having three standards (two is already one too many ;-)
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