{
"subject": "Re: Convert Bitcoin to GTK: Yes? No? wx is better?",
"content": {
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"body": "<div class=\"post\"><div class=\"quoteheader\"><a href=\"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=867.msg10226#msg10226\">Quote from: BioMike on August 19, 2010, 08:05:18 AM</a></div><div class=\"quote\">WxWidgets is not really a problem. My problem is the version that is used (2.9), which is considered unstable by many distro packagers (although the WxWidgets devs say it isn't). On the other side, as far as I know WxWidgets uses gtk under Linux for drawing the whole stuff and makes it for the bitcoins devs easy to make things cross platform.<br/></div>wxWidgets 2.9 is their first UTF-8 version. We are UTF-8 on all platforms including Windows.<br/><br/>The distro packages of 2.8 are UTF-16, so they just trip people up. People had endless build problems with 2.8 and its wxString UTF-16/ANSI conditional build options until we standardized on 2.9. Also, to use 2.8, we were using ANSI, which was just a temporary stopgap until wxWidgets supported UTF-8.<br/><br/>This is a problem that will solve itself. With time, 2.9 will become a more mainline release.</div>"
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"source": {
"name": "Bitcoin Forum",
"url": "https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=867.msg10272#msg10272"
},
"date": "2010-08-19T18:44:36Z"
}