X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fimagex.1.in;h=21ebba0cb14ae1cb11caa5c21188a311e4b45334;hb=a4afe5a6e7fc70b3e73022f4911e7a60d67a7675;hp=6838f2a170ced16fbddeea1957a62ceaed4a91e9;hpb=9d5bfaf96429c37235c2cbc9e71f3ab8b2bb46ba;p=wimlib diff --git a/doc/imagex.1.in b/doc/imagex.1.in index 6838f2a1..21ebba0c 100644 --- a/doc/imagex.1.in +++ b/doc/imagex.1.in @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH IMAGEX 1 "March 2013" "@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ @VERSION@" "User Commands" +.TH IMAGEX 1 "April 2013" "@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ @VERSION@" "User Commands" .SH NAME @IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ \- Create, modify, extract, mount, or unmount a WIM (Windows Imaging Format) archive .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -151,18 +151,11 @@ UNIX builds.) .SH LOCALES AND CHARACTER ENCODINGS -wimlib 1.3.0 has improved support for alternate character encodings. -However, not everything has been well tested, and on UNIX you are strongly -encouraged to use a UTF-8 locale so that you do not run into any problems. -In particular, if your locale uses a character encoding that is -not UTF-8, then you will not be able to open or capture WIM files containing -files with paths not representable in the current locale's character encoding. - -Similar restrictions apply to the Windows-native build of wimlib, but -unfortunately Windows does not support UTF-8 locales. So you will not be able -to apply a WIM image containing files with names not representable in the -current Windows code page, nor will you be able to capture a directory tree -containing files with names not representable in the current Windows code page. +On Windows, wimlib 1.3.2 and later works in UTF-16LE, and there should be no +problems with character encodings. + +On UNIX, wimlib works primarily in the locale-dependent multibyte encoding, +which you are strongly recommended to set to UTF-8 to avoid any problems. .SH WARNING