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qyot27 · 29th April 2020, 18:56

I honestly don't see the point of Plus-specific extension(s). It would make sense if we were completely overhauling the AviSynth scripting language into a properly versioned one with in-script controls and a CLI interpreter for that sort of compatibility (think of the hashbang in Unix shell scripts), in the sense that the wholly-different language was Plus-specific and absolutely needed to be shielded from 2.6 and prior, but we aren't. UTF-8 is transparent to the host on everything that's not Windows, and even is transparent on Windows if you've actually set the system locale to UTF-8 (which is possible on Win10, it's just not the default like it is on nearly every other OS out there). Even 2.6 is fine with UTF-8 in that situation.

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qyot27 ...? Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Florida Posts: 1,420	I honestly don't see the point of Plus-specific extension(s). It would make sense if we were completely overhauling the AviSynth scripting language into a properly versioned one with in-script controls and a CLI interpreter for that sort of compatibility (think of the hashbang in Unix shell scripts), in the sense that the wholly-different language was Plus-specific and absolutely needed to be shielded from 2.6 and prior, but we aren't. UTF-8 is transparent to the host on everything that's not Windows, and even is transparent on Windows if you've actually set the system locale to UTF-8 (which is possible on Win10, it's just not the default like it is on nearly every other OS out there). Even 2.6 is fine with UTF-8 in that situation.