> 1. Opening my sa.si4 database reports a plain "Encoding utf-8 failed" dialog > (no matter how opened)
It's a problem with repeated opening of the dialog. Will work with next revision. > 2. Opening icofy from the new file open menu only fails The problem occurs while opening a database with the wrong encoding. In this case invalid UTF-8 strings are read from the namebase, and my conversion function which forces valid UTF-8 strings failed. I've fixed this function, now Icofy.si4 will be opened properly. But the player/event/site names are garbage if opened with the wrong encoding. Note that this encoding problem is a Scid related problem. The Scid database does not contain information about the character encoding, and it can by any encoding (but normally it is ISO-8859-1 on older Unix/Linux versions, and UTF-8 on newer Unix/Linux versions). If a message "Encoding <encoding-name> failed" occurs after opening a database, you may try to recode with a different encoding (use "Recode..." from the context menu). > Both these DBs open fine in Scid. Yes, but only if you're system has the same encoding used by Icofy.si4 (ISO-8859-1). If a chinese is opening this database - on his machine the system encoding may be Big-5 - some of the player/event/site names will be garbage if he opens the database with Scid. Try it out. Insert the command encoding system big5 ;# simulating a Big-5 system encoding in file start.tcl, open Icofy.si4 and look at game 275241. Scidb provides the option to choose the right encoding, Scid does not. > My main criticisms is still that the interfaces are very non-standard I think you mean the main menu. I will re-implement the main menus at the latest with the alpha release. But consider that main menus are not state of the art. Modern applications do avoid main menus, look at the latest Firefox. The main issues with main menus are: - huge and confusing - missing context I will keep the main menus relatively small. > and huge context menus should be avoided imho. You're right, I have to rebuild some of the context menus. Gregor -- Gregor Cramer email: <[email protected]>
