INI files were introduced by 16-bit Windows, and 16-bit Windows predates Unicode, so INI files naturally did not support Unicode at the time they were introduced. The relatively simple format of INI files means that many people parse (and sometimes even modify) them directly, without using the INI file manager.
TIL that there exists an INI file manager, only a few decades too late, haha.
TIL that there exists an INI file manager, only a few decades too late, haha.
I also didn’t know such a thing exists. I’ve always used the Python
configparseranyways.remembering that time I implemented an INI parser in Ant. I’ve trepanned most of those memories out by now.