Using Unicode-NSIS from now on !

Hi,

We use NSIS to create the Widows Installer for AbiWord. However NSIS
only supports ANSI Codepage languages, causing encoding issues with a
lot of languages.

Whereas Unicode-NSIS (listed as a 3rd party project on NSIS website
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page) is essentially NSIS patched to
be completely Unicode. This means that installers generated using
Unicode NSIS will only work on Windows 2000 and later but that's what
we support as well. With this we can add any language that Windows
supports on any codepage setting. And it essentially makes the
installer completely Unicode.

Many other projects such as Mozilla, Winamp, Openoffice etc. use it
for creating Windows Installers as well.

So I propose that we only use Unicode-NSIS from now on (it doesn't
require any changes in our nsis scripts, works nicely as it is).

Cheers!
Prashant
Received on Sun Aug 5 11:00:52 2012