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[Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>]

W dniu 2014-10-08 09:18, Deyan Stoykov pisze:
> On 7.10.2014 г. 19:33, Tomasz Wolniewicz wrote:
>> Hi Deyan,
>> This problem comes from the non-utf version of NSIS distributed for
>> Linux. However the problem should not be too severe, as the Terms  of
>> use should be converted to a proper Windows code page and correctly
>> displayed in a localised version of Windows.
>> If you use a German version of CAT on a Bulgarian version of Windows
>> then you can have problems, but we assume that in the typical case, the
>> user will choose a language best suited for him and normally the
>> operating system language and the CAT language version will match.
>
> You are correct. However, its the "Language for non-Unicode programs"
> (system locale) setting that matters, not necessarily the OS
> language/localization. When I changed it to German, the non-ASCII
> characters were correctly displayed.
Of course, but in practice, if you have a Bulgarian operating system,
why would you want to use CAT in German?
I agree that UTF is a "nice to have", but what we have now does not make
the system completely broken or unusable.
>
>> I suppose your problem comes from the fact that we do not have Bulgarian
>> language in CAT yet, therefore you are not able to set Bulgarian as a
>> CAT language and in consequence the charset converter cannot do it's
>> job.
>>
>> If you like, tomorrow I can set Bulgarian support on
>> cat-test.eduroam.org (even without any translations) and you should be
>> able to confirm that things work fine.
>
> Yes, please do, that would be great.
I will contact you off-list.
Tomasz

>
> Best regards,
> Deyan
>

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