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Weird Black Text

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cloudleon
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Joined: September 22nd, 2012, 7:58 am

Weird Black Text

Post by cloudleon »

newbie here >.< some skins that I load have errors and come out as black text, is there anyway to fix this?
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Alex Becherer

Re: Weird Black Text

Post by Alex Becherer »

it's either the files are not there.

or (i guess you are from East Asia):
the config files are encoded wrong. Rainmeter only supports ANSI or Unicode encoded files. Unicode Big Endian or UTF-8 do not work. You can open them with Windows' notepad.exe and use "Save As" to change the encoding method. should be the last dropdown menu in the "Save As" dialog.
poiru
Developer
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Joined: April 17th, 2009, 12:18 pm

Re: Weird Black Text

Post by poiru »

Which skins are causing you trouble?
Alex Becherer wrote:the config files are encoded wrong. Rainmeter only supports ANSI or Unicode encoded files. Unicode Big Endian or UTF-8 do not work. You can open them with Windows' notepad.exe and use "Save As" to change the encoding method. should be the last dropdown menu in the "Save As" dialog.
UTF-8 does actually work, too.
Alex Becherer

Re: Weird Black Text

Post by Alex Becherer »

poiru wrote: UTF-8 does actually work, too.
not for me when saved as UTF-8 encoded with notepad.exe

Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64 bit
Rainmeter 2.4.0 r1626 64 bit