Problem set DiffMerge Tool character encodings.

heihoo · Post by **heihoo** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 9:07 am

I use simplified Chinese language files.
But I can't set gb2312 character encodings in the DiffMerge Tool.

thanks a lot!

ps. SourceGear Vault Client version is 3.1.8 (3771)

dan · Post by **dan** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:16 am

Add the attached .so file to the location where the other sgdm .so files are, and after restarting the tool, it should be available.

heihoo · Post by **heihoo** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 1:55 pm

It do not work.thx

Perry · Post by **Perry** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:17 pm

That dialog screenshot doesn't look like it makes any sense.

GB-2312 is not a unicode encoding.

#1)
I recommend you try checking the ANSI radio checkbox (that is a very poorly named button, but it follows Microsoft's poor naming convention) and putting GB-2312 into that box.

(ANSI doesn't mean ANSI, it means non-Unicode, in Microsoft-language.)

#2)
I suggest that the software should warn the user if it finds an inappropriate such string in the Unicode edit box, because I doubt that that makes any sense.

Caveat: I'm no expert on these subjects, and I've not tried this myself.

heihoo · Post by **heihoo** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 9:35 am

I putin gb2312 or gb-2312 into ansi textbox.but it look at the same error message.
Where did I work error?
ps: I copy gb2312.so into the iconv forld.
thx.

dan · Post by **dan** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:00 pm

OK, we've found the problem. gb2312.so actually depends on another encoding called gb_2312-80.so. So, you need to install the gb_2312-80.so file into the same inconv folder, and then gb2312 should load. It is in the attached file

heihoo · Post by **heihoo** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:38 pm

I used tool to show different.
It is the same file beteen gb2312 from gb2312-80.

dan · Post by **dan** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 6:36 am

Does it still not load?

Perry · Post by **Perry** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 7:44 am

GB-2312 is a very old encoding for simplified Chinese, at least judging by the info on wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GB2312

It looks to me like GB-2312 is also known as GB2312-80 because it was created in 1980.

It looks like it was obsoleted in 1993 by GBK, which was in turn obsoleted in 2000 by GB-18030 (or GB18030-2000), which is now the mandated encoding for PRC (since 2001).