All these archives contain both the cwebp and dwebp precompiled executables, along with the libwebp.a library and C headers (the latter allowing you to add WebP encoding or decoding to your own programs).
Though formatting mangled the registry key to add, the article is interesting: since 2003 (C# Builder 1), you can force the IDE to always save files as UTF8 which should alleviate a lot of encoding problems.
It beats me why this isn’t the default setting, but below is an example .reg file for Delphi 8 which should be easily transformed to more recent Delphi versions:
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So basically (if formatting is kept), you browse to this key (replace Borland with the company for your specific Delphi version, and replace 2.0 by your IDE version):
Since various terminals have a different mapping from colours in the ANSI escape code colour table, I used the standard HTML colours using (which slightly differs from the Terminal.app screenshot on the right):
By modifying this property you can let the PDF engine compress (deflate) text. By using compression the file will be reasonable smaller. On the other had compression will create binary data rather than ASCII data. While “deflate” produces the smallest files, “run-length” compression is compatible even to very old PDF reader programs.
Property JPEGQuality
wPDF can compress bitmaps using JPEG. This will work only for true color bitmaps (24 bits/pixel) and if you have set the desired quality in this property.
Property EncodeStreamMethod
If data in the PDF file is binary it can be encoded to be ASCII again. Binary data can be either compressed text or graphics. You can select HEX encoding or ASCII95 which is more effective then HEX.
Property ConvertJPEGData
Note: Only applies to TWPDFExport.
If this property is true JPEG data found in the TWPRichText editor will not be embedded as JPEG data. Instead the bitmap will be compressed using deflate or run length compression. It is necessary to set this property to TRUE if the PDF files must be compatible to older PDF reader programs which are incapable to read JPEG data.
Note that EncodeStreamMethod does not do compression, but it does belong here because the encodings result in different PDF sizes.
The settings are not documented in more detail, so here are the enumerations explaining them in a bit more depth:
CompressStreamMethodis of enumeration TWPCompressStreamMethod = (wpCompressNone, wpCompressFlate, wpCompressRunlength, wpCompressFastFlate);
Microsoft Windows has a code page designated for UTF-8, code page 65001. Prior to Windows 10 insider build 17035 (November 2017),[7] it was impossible to set the locale code page to 65001, leaving this code page only available for:
Explicit conversion functions such as MultiByteToWideChar
The Win32 console command chcp 65001 to translate stdin/out between UTF-8 and UTF-16.
This means that “narrow” functions, in particular fopen, cannot be called with UTF-8 strings, and in fact there is no way to open all possible files using fopen no matter what the locale is set to and/or what bytes are put in the string, as none of the available locales can produce all possible UTF-16 characters.
On all modern non-Windows platforms, the string passed to fopen is effectively UTF-8. This produces an incompatibility between other platforms and Windows. The normal work-around is to add Windows-specific code to convert UTF-8 to UTF-16 using MultiByteToWideChar and call the “wide” function.[8] Conversion is also needed even for Windows-specific api such as SetWindowText since many applications inherently have to use UTF-8 due to its use in file formats, internet protocols, and its ability to interoperate with raw arrays of bytes.
There were proposals to add new API to portable libraries such as Boost to do the necessary conversion, by adding new functions for opening and renaming files. These functions would pass filenames through unchanged on Unix, but translate them to UTF-16 on Windows.[9] This would allow code to be “portable”, but required just as many code changes as calling the wide functions.
With insider build 17035 and the April 2018 update (nominal build 17134) for Windows 10, a “Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support” checkbox appeared for setting the locale code page to UTF-8.[a] This allows for calling “narrow” functions, including fopen and SetWindowTextA, with UTF-8 strings. Microsoft claims this option might break some functions (a possible example is _mbsrev[10]) as they were written to assume multibyte encodings used no more than 2 bytes per character, thus until now code pages with more bytes such as GB 18030 (cp54936) and UTF-8 could not be set as the locale.[11]
One of out customer had selected that and we started to experience very weird problems and took some time to find out why it misbehaves.
None of the application could connect to Firebird SQL server (Ours or third party) successfully.
So would be smart to go through all tooling and code with that setting, we never know what M$oft will do with that, will it ever be released or will it soon be default for all.
One of the things that bugged me for a long time is that every now and then for some shapes, when editing their text, the draw.io web interface puts in trailing line feeds after the text, messing up layout.
The easiest way to work around it is by searching inside the diagram XML for
", then replacing that with a ".
(the above code got screwed by WordPress.com saving it, so the search is in this small gist below)
This behaviour is intermittent on the drawio MacOS desktop app.
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Every now and then the visual editor at https://t.co/HhHS5rzG2X screws up when saving. For now @WordPress needs to check why the below inside <code> tags gets translated to a line feed, despite the text view having it correctly escaped:https://t.co/pv30Lg9NZW
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