>> Could an Iyonix owner tell me if RISC OS 5 can properly display
>> UTF-8 encoded messages in windows and menus?
> The RO5 Wimp speaks Unicode. If you set your system alphabet to UTF8,
> then it will display such strings correctly. The downside, however, is
> that most applications have no knowledge of UTF-8, so their menu text
> will likely come out garbled (invariably, it's the shift arrow which
> confuses matters).
> My understanding is that for the embedded RO boxes shipped in Japan, the
> system alphabet was set to UTF8 by default. I suspect it's likely that
> you will need to softload ROOL International and InternationalKeyboard
> modules to be able to set the system alphabet to UTF8. I suspect that
> it's unwise to attempt to softload the ROOL Wimp on a ROL OS, however.
So if I were to translate the necessary files, someone could at least give me a
screenshot of it running on RO5? That would be satisfying! I'll have to try to
get R05 running under emulation on Windows at least, so I can see my
translation in action!
It's a shame that setting the system alphabet to UTF8 will break a lot of
applications' menus (and slightly ironic, seeing as UTF8 was designed to slot
into non-Unicode aware systems without causing problems). Perhaps there could
be a hack written that tries to assess whether a Messages file is UTF8-encoded
or Latin-1-encoded, and transcode the strings accordingly on the fly... Still,
that's a discussion for another mailing list, I suppose.
Any pointers as to where to start with the translation files? I think there
used to be some information about this on the Netsurf website, but I can't find
it now.
Thanks,
wpb
