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Hi, I just discovered that my compiled exe script works only in the same language OS that I wrote the script. For example, my Win vista is in spanish, I wrote my script in English, compiled it, it worked. Then I installed English Mui, I switched to engish and was surprised the comiled exe didn't work and gave me this error "Line 1 does not contain a recogized action"
When I switched back to spanih, the compiled script worked again.


What to do? Please help.

I can only save in ANSI format because UNICODE does not work for autohotkey. What should i do?

thank you

Show you script.

any script, like:

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^!t::send !{Esc}

It can be any script length, with only english letters. If i program it when spanish xp is on and then switch to english mui, the compiled exe does not work. Did noone have this problem?

Dear Welcome, it looks like nobody knows, and neither do I.

Before compiling to .exe, save your .ahk in UTF-8 format ( Save As >Name>on the last dropdown box menu choose UTF-8 ).

Hope it'll help.

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AutoHotKey

Sound logical to me, in English it is Alt-F for the File menu, in other languages the menu isn't called File but Archivo so the
shortcut to activate it may be Alt-A (for example). Try using different
methods such as send/postmessage this is independent of the language.

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TF : Text files & strings lib, TF Forum

Who said anything about Alt+F?

I understood that there was a problem with autohotkey not recognizing its scripts in different languages' evironments. If so, I'm sure it is worth saving .ahk's in UTF-8, which is superior to ANSII because it allows more characters. Would be good to hear from Welcome.

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AutoHotKey

It's worth a try, but by my understanding, AutoHotkey will parse it as ANSI anyway. Meaning you just get junk results if you try using non-ascii characters.

I think you're right, this sample illustrates that unfortunately neither ANSII nor UTF-8 allow many extended characters, even though you can see them fine in your notepad:

e.g. German ß ü ö ä

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AutoHotKey

Actually those come through fine in ANSI, for me at least, but that may well depend on which language you're using. Specifically, the "code-page".

But none of this really explains why there would be any trouble with a very simple script like Welcome's example:

1. I get those german characters different when I save .ahk in ANSII or UTF-8. My OS is not German though. But I do see all the german letters fine when simply typing them in notepad.


2. According to Welcome:



i.e. all works fine until he turns on a different MUI - ahk scripts just stop working then and pop up errors when run. So, this is not really caused by non-english symbols. As I understand.

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AutoHotKey

Workaround: try running AHK2EXE in Win98 compatibility - this might help.

Also make sure the script is actually being saved as ANSI rather than Unicode/UTF8 - try a different editor, if needed.