3.18 Character encoding

RapaGUI supports two character encodings in the XML files used to describe the GUI layout: iso-8859-1 and utf-8. If you use utf-8 encoding on AmigaOS and compatibles, RapaGUI will require codesets.library to do character conversion from UTF-8 to the system's default charset.

Amiga users please note that MUI does not support UTF-8. MUI always uses the system's default charset. Thus, if you use UTF-8 encoding in your XML files, RapaGUI will try to map these strings to the system's default charset. This must not always succeed. For example, if the system's default charset is ISO-8859-1 and the UTF-8 XML file uses some Eastern European characters not present in ISO-8859-1 then they will not be displayed correctly. They will only be displayed correctly if the system's default charset has them as well.


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