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The notes.ini is stored in LBMCS format.
You could ask for a feature having the notes.ini stored in UTF-8 format in future.
But today it is not fully supported to edit the notes.ini manually.
This needs to be done with very special care.
Some editors convert the notes.ini and break the LMBCS encoding.
If you have an editor which does not translate and keeps lines as they are, you can be lucky.
Umlauts and international chars are fully supported in notes.ini by design.
Specially with functionality like AutoSave which derives the autosave database name from the user, you can run into issues.
Here is a GitHub project with a way to edit the notes.ini.
Note: It should be only used for editing when the server is started.
https://github.com/nashcom/nshini
We could also add an option to set notes.ini parameters from command-line.
So we would only need to translate the notes.ini parameter from command-line into LMBCS and set it.
This is not a defect. But I would wish there would be more detailed documentation how to edit the notes.ini in a supported way.
On the server the best way is set config xyz=abc on the local or remote console.
But yes if the server is not started, that is difficult.
For the client we can come up with a small helper database to set notes.ini parameters.
My request would be:
1. Document in detail how to edit the notes.ini in a safe way
2. Consider UTF-8 format for the notes.ini
Technically UTF-8 would be a small change, but it could break existing applications and would be a lot work in testing.
But this would be the only way to make the notes.ini safe to edit.
I would say there are more important features on the list and this isn't an unproblematic fix compared to changing *.ind files from native charset to UTF-8.
[ Daniel Nashed / https://blog.nashcom.de ]