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clrmame Discussion / XML dats and UTF support
« on: 19 January 2011, 07:26 »
Hi!
I use clrmamepro to create some XML (I need UTF support) DATs. I see that clrmamepro is using numerical HTML encoding
to represent a Unicode character and at least one character seems to be handled wrong. I'm talking about ł. If I use it while I create a DAT (I use it in the "Author" field in the Dir2Dat section) everything looks good. I load the DAT, click on "Show Info" and I see the ł displayed correctly. However If you open the DAT in a text editor you'll see that "ł" is represented by ³ string instead of ł. Everywhere else this string is displayed as ³ This is a problem when you use DATs with other tools. Is this simply a mistake or is there something else I should know? I'd be very grateful if someone could explain that.
Thank you,
Diaboł
I use clrmamepro to create some XML (I need UTF support) DATs. I see that clrmamepro is using numerical HTML encoding
to represent a Unicode character and at least one character seems to be handled wrong. I'm talking about ł. If I use it while I create a DAT (I use it in the "Author" field in the Dir2Dat section) everything looks good. I load the DAT, click on "Show Info" and I see the ł displayed correctly. However If you open the DAT in a text editor you'll see that "ł" is represented by ³ string instead of ł. Everywhere else this string is displayed as ³ This is a problem when you use DATs with other tools. Is this simply a mistake or is there something else I should know? I'd be very grateful if someone could explain that.
Thank you,
Diaboł