Zugg Software :: View topic - XML Export/Import is broken for non-english codepage.

Beginner Joined: 03 Jan 2009 Posts: 21

version 2.37

Export seems OK, except it writes encoding="ISO-8859-1" in the header, while the text is definitely in Win-1251 codepage (It is a russian MUD Cool

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During import all russian characters are lost Evil or Very Mad

Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 7:00 pm

CMUD doesn't support unicode, and this is another example where that fails. It might be possible to do something about this particular example, but generally speaking, there's not much that can be done.

Beginner Joined: 03 Jan 2009 Posts: 21

At least CMUD can use system default codepage instead of ISO-8859-1 Question

Beginner Joined: 03 Jan 2009 Posts: 21

Copy/paste settings is also broken. all russian characters are lost Crying or Very sad

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 9:37 am

Copy/paste uses XML, that's why.

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 6:33 pm

The reason CMUD uses ISO-8859-1 is so packages uploaded to the shared package library (which also uses the XML) can be shared with other people. It defines the standard XML character set to be used for scripts. I will add this to the to-do list for a future version to see if I can modify the package library to store a "code page" for each package so that different packages can have different code pages. But this probably won't be done until the rest of the unicode support is added to CMUD, and that's probably a year away.

Beginner Joined: 03 Jan 2009 Posts: 21

This means that cmud is practically unusable for me for year Crying or Very sad

I do not understand why I can succsefully enter russian characters, but can not copy/paste settings containing them. Why the conversion (actually loss of information) is taking place. Let cmud think that it is a standard code page. Why convert?