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only 8 bit characters PB version ...

Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2024 1:15 pm
by marc_256
Hi,

What was the latest version of PB who used only 8 bit characters ?

Thanks,
marc,

Re: only 8 bit characters PB version ...

Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2024 1:44 pm
by Quin
PB was made unicode-only in 5.50, and the last version to support Ascii (8-bit characters) was the 5.4x LTS series, I believe 5.44 was the latest.

Re: only 8 bit characters PB version ...

Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2024 5:41 pm
by Shardik
Quin wrote: Wed Sep 25, 2024 1:44 pm PB was made unicode-only in 5.50, and the last version to support Ascii (8-bit characters) was the 5.4x LTS series, I believe 5.44 was the latest.
The last 5.4x LTS version with both ASCII and Unicode support was 5.46 from 7th January 2018 as written in the PureBasic news.

Re: only 8 bit characters PB version ...

Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2024 7:29 pm
by marc_256
Hi thanks guys,

I just downloaded from the museum ...

Marc,

PS: Old guy, old software, :mrgreen:
hope my old program will work ...