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In windows versions, in folders "Compilers\" and "PureLibraries\Windows\Libraries\" found the folder "arm64\".
Was this added by mistake or are there plans to add Windows ARM?

If you look at the file properties in Explorer, the time is an hour longer than specified. Date.q = Date(2010, 4, 8, 2, 0, 0) File.s = GetTemporaryDirectory()+"Test.txt" CreateFile(0, File) CloseFile(0) SetFileDate(File, #PB_Date_Created, Date) Debug FormatDate("%yyyy/%mm/%dd %hh:%ii:...

UTF-16 Encoding: 0xD83D 0xDD01 Chr() and Asc() don't support this. Workaround. Procedure.l NewAsc(s.s) Protected r = Asc(s) If r>=$D800 And r<=$DFFF r | ((Asc(PeekS(@s+2, 1))&$FFFF)<<16) EndIf ProcedureReturn r EndProcedure Procedure.s NewChr(Char.l) Protected x, r.s = Chr(Char) x = Char & ...

In PB 6.10 beta 4, in the function description OpenPreferences(), it is written Encoding (optional) To force a string encoding when reading the preference file. If an UTF-8 BOM is found in at the start of the file, this parameter is ignored and UTF-8 will be used. It can be one of the following valu...

mk-soft wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 1:56 pmThe documentation will only be updated with the release

What does this phrase mean then?

Fred wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 10:44 am

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miniaudio supports mp3. But in the PB version, this is disabled (probably the static library is compiled with the MA_NO_MP3 flag).
It would be great to add MP3 support to PB.

#PB_Ascii in Linux

This topic was created in the Windows section. Then move it to another section.
Windows is localized for each language and the text in ascii is displayed correctly.
Linux does not have localization for languages.

AZJIO wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 3:56 pmThe #PB_Ascii flag will require all "Windows code pages" to be embedded.

File functions support required encodings (#PB_Ascii, #PB_UTF8 and #PB_Unicode).

But then why do we need flag #PB_Preference_NoBOM if function CreatePreferences() saves with BOM? In any case, if this is a PB-only library, there is no need for #PB_Preference_NoBOM. https://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?p=577057 Fred wrote that the Preference library is only for PB appli...

But then why do we need flag #PB_Preference_NoBOM if function CreatePreferences() saves with BOM?
In any case, if this is a PB-only library, there is no need for #PB_Preference_NoBOM.