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valenock · Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 16

Is Autohotkey aware of codepages/locales other than Latin-1 ?

MsgBox, Русский текст - Some Russian text

leads to some funny characters instead of letters in its first part

The same problems are with other String functions.

Is it a bug or there is something I do not know about Autohoteky ?

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10467

AutoHotkey is strictly an ANSI program except for the Transform Unicode command. Therefore, if any of the characters you try to use aren't in the ANSI character set, when you save the script as ANSI, they'll probably get mapped to something unexpected.

If this is not a Unicode issue, I can't explain it because I don't know enough about code pages, except to say that AutoHotkey never changes code pages internally (other than whatever the OS does automatically to support the locale it's running on).

There are tentative plans to release a separate Unicode version of AutoHotkey someday. I suspect it would solve this issue.

If anyone knows if and how an ANSI program can be made to better support multiple code pages, please post here.