As you may have noticed, in the last Macro Scheduler update we fixed a problem that prevented compiled macros from running on Chinese Windows. This probably affected other non-Western language versions of Windows too. It took us a while to track down this little bug even though, as is often the case, it turned it to be a simple little thing.
In order to replicate the problem quickly I installed the Chinese Simplified version of Windows XP into a Virtual Machine. That was interesting when I have no knowledge of Chinese whatsoever. Luckily (or unluckily) I’ve installed XP so many times I knew from the location of each option what each one did. Here’s our XP Windows showing the control panel:
Do what?
It did give me a great idea for a way to stop my friends and family from mucking up their PCs. Maybe if they don’t understand what the screen says they can’t muck it up …oh wait …
Anyway, with the 490 million Chinese Internet users soon to outnumber the rest of us, I’m glad this little bug has been squashed.
