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[?] Russian characters? by SmokingCookie on 04-11-2009 at 07:20 AM

Hi folks,

I've been trying to add Russian characters to a skin's name, yet it doesn't appear in the list. When transliterated, it does. Aren't these characters supported by Plus!?

RE: [?] Russian characters? by Willz on 04-11-2009 at 08:45 AM

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Originally posted by SmokingCookie
Hi folks,

I've been trying to add Russian characters to a skin's name, yet it doesn't appear in the list. When transliterated, it does. Aren't these characters supported by Plus!?

Its probably because Skininfo files are UTF-8 and for those characters to appear you have to be in UTF-16 which Plus! doesn't recognise as a valid Skininfo file.
RE: RE: [?] Russian characters? by SmokingCookie on 04-11-2009 at 08:51 AM

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Originally posted by Willz
quote:
Originally posted by SmokingCookie
Hi folks,

I've been trying to add Russian characters to a skin's name, yet it doesn't appear in the list. When transliterated, it does. Aren't these characters supported by Plus!?

Its probably because Skininfo files are UTF-8 and for those characters to appear you have to be in UTF-16 which Plus! doesn't recognise as a valid Skininfo file.

I see. But why does it not recognise UTF-16 then?
RE: RE: RE: [?] Russian characters? by Willz on 04-11-2009 at 08:55 AM

quote:
Originally posted by SmokingCookie
quote:
Originally posted by Willz
quote:
Originally posted by SmokingCookie
Hi folks,

I've been trying to add Russian characters to a skin's name, yet it doesn't appear in the list. When transliterated, it does. Aren't these characters supported by Plus!?

Its probably because Skininfo files are UTF-8 and for those characters to appear you have to be in UTF-16 which Plus! doesn't recognise as a valid Skininfo file.

I see. But why does it not recognise UTF-16 then?

Probably because Messenger doesn't support UTF-16 and it wouldn't make much sense to allow it.