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Update notes about unicode and Windows

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Martchus 2017-01-15 20:51:02 +01:00
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@ -207,13 +207,11 @@ Here are some Bash examples which illustrate getting and setting tag information
3. The CLI prints all values in UTF-8 encoding (no matter which encoding is actually used in the tag).
### Windows only
* The Tag Editor sets the codepage to UTF-8 to ensure *3.* is handled correctly by the terminal. So
* Codepage is set to UTF-8 to ensure *3.* is handled correctly by the terminal. So
far it seems that this effort just causes weird truncating behaviour in some cases and might
prevent pipes/redirections to function. One can use MSYS2 terminal to work around this.
* The Tag Editor converts all UTF-16 encoded arguments as provided by WinAPI to UTF-8 so *2.*
shouldn't cause any trouble in theory.
* Opening files with unicode characters in the name *does* work.
* Setting unicode values via CLI does *not* work, though.
* All UTF-16 encoded arguments as provided by WinAPI are converted to UTF-8 so *2.*
shouldn't cause any trouble.
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