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just noticed this in the help file...

"The recommended script format is UTF-8 with BOM. ANSI formats are not recommended for languages other than English as they can cause problems when run on machines with different locales."

 

i understand that to mean that the actual au3 scripts to be compiled and used on non-EN systems should be UTF-8 with BOM, correct?

if i am correct, than why are all of the include files i checked encoded in ANSI?

FUNCTIONS: WinDock (dock window to screen edge) | EditCtrl_ToggleLineWrap (line/word wrap for AU3 edit control) | SendEX (yet another alternative to Send( ) ) | Spell Checker (Hunspell wrapper) | SentenceCase (capitalize first letter of sentences)

CODE SNIPPITS: Dynamic tab width (set tab control width according to window width)

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One of the best questions I've heard for a while.

The first 128 characters are the same in both unicode and ansi, so there should be no conflicts. The extended ascii characters of the win-1252 code page are different from unicode characters (128 - 255) and this will cause conflicts with different systems. In other words you are safe to use characters 0 - 127 in both encoding systems. I hope this answers part of your question.

I believe UTF-8 is recommended for the web and I think UTF-16 is more associated with windows. I don't understand the need for BOM - I think BOM may be a misunderstanding or unresolved issue between developers (I'm probably wrong but personally I think it's unfortunate). Hopefully someone will have further information to add.

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A BOM is a necessary evil. This is a consequence of the sad fact that every UTF8 without BOM file is a valid but erroneous ANSI file in almost all(*) variants of so-called ANSI.

To convince yourself, compare these two readings of the exact same script whose meaning is different whether you interpret it in UTF8 w/o BOM

ConsoleWrite("Nous avons demandé au vendeur d'expédier l'objet. Connectez-vous à votre compte PayPal pour consulter les détails de la transaction." & @LF)

or emasculated as Windows western (latin-1)

ConsoleWrite("Nous avons demandé au vendeur d'expédier l'objet. Connectez-vous à  votre compte PayPal pour consulter les détails de la transaction." & @LF)

(*) a number of non-UTF encodings widely used in Asia use double-byte representation where not all binary combinations (hi-lo) are valid.

EDIT: forgot to mention that I strongly advocate for the whole AutoIt tool chain to only recognize and process UTF8 + BOM files, #includes included. That would definitely solve all questions about source encodings and promote universal non-ambiguity.

Edited by jchd

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thanks for the answers

that explains why the include files are ANSI and also, i think, why my script size did not change substantially when i converted one to UTF-8

FUNCTIONS: WinDock (dock window to screen edge) | EditCtrl_ToggleLineWrap (line/word wrap for AU3 edit control) | SendEX (yet another alternative to Send( ) ) | Spell Checker (Hunspell wrapper) | SentenceCase (capitalize first letter of sentences)

CODE SNIPPITS: Dynamic tab width (set tab control width according to window width)

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