[Bug 18192] Notepad can only save as ISO-8859

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18192


Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>  2009-04-24 20:03:06 ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=20687)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=20687) [details]
> patch that implements opening/saving files as ACP, UTF8, UTF16-LE and UTF16-BE
> 
> This patch is far too messy to send in, as it does lots of random stuff. I
> wrote most of it last year.
> 
> Some questions:
> 
> * Should I add a specific "Unix codepage" (CP_UNIXCP) item? (the UTF-8 option
> adds a non-standard byte-order mark.) This could even do LF <-> CRLF
> conversion...
> * Should I use IsTextUnicode()? If so, Wine notepad may then suffer from the
> "Bush hid the facts" bug.
> * It could even enumerate all installed codepages (EnumSystemCodepages(), I
> believe), and allow the user to pick any of them. Good idea?
> 
> Note that Wine notepad uses the active code page (CP_ACP) for saving/loading,
> which isn't latin1/ISO-8859/CP1252 in some locales (e.g Russian uses CP1251,
> Japanese uses CP932).

Those are all good questions for wine-devel.

> PS: Wine notepad doesn't like NUL characters (they truncate the file). This is
> hard to fix. I think WinXP Notepad uses a custom edit control. I don't know,
> though.

Testcases are always helpful.


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