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Chinese GB support
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 1:34 am
by berdey
I am from China. can the textpad support the Chinese GB? thus we can use it.
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 9:26 am
by ben_josephs
No. The current version of TextPad stores each character internally in a single byte, which isn't big enough to hold the 6763 Chinese characters of GB 2312-80. Join the throng clamouring for a Unicode version!
Understandable but obsolete
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 7:38 am
by geewizz7
Latin users are clamouring for Unicode. I live in China, and I know how annoying it gets when things display wrongly. If I run Chinese software using GB encoding on my English copy of windows, NOTHING displays - File, Edit, Messageboxes ALL show as ???? characters.
Unicode is universal - and windows, linux, mac, and most browsers fully support it. Much better for you to consider this option so that you can expand into other territories later on.