Michael Good / 2005/08/17 / 01:22 PM wrote: >Internally, Finale files don't use Unicode.
Oooo :-( >The US version of Finale automatically converts between MacRoman and >Windows-1252, but not between other character sets. So they took a shortcut, instead of making Finale UTF-8 data structure, they patched with transcoder instead. This might explain why Fin2006 chose crippled CA support - limit to NI AU support only - since CA publishes in UTF-8 and Fin2006 won't be able to process it. NI might be helping covering it up. One can only guess. > What I don't know is >if the Japanese version automatically converts between Mac Japanese and >MS932, or just does the MacRoman / 1252 conversion. The Japanese files >we have here display fine on the OS that produced them, but don't >display correctly when you cross platforms. I bet no. I guess the transcoder needs to identify the encoding first. That's a lot of process with huge lib unless Finale puts encoding in the file header, but if Finale is still using Mac Japanese instead of UTF-8 then it is very unlikely because it won't know if JP char was used. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA <http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
