Editing BitComet (section)

=== Torrent file format ===
According to the official BitTorrent specification, 'All strings in a .torrent file that contains text must be [[UTF-8]] encoded'.<ref name="BitTorrentSpec">{{Cite web
| url=http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html
| title=The BitTorrent Protocol Specification
| author=Bram Cohen
| access-date=2009-08-26
| archive-date=2014-02-08
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140208002821/http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html
| url-status=live
}}</ref> When generating torrents on non-Latin character systems such as Chinese or Japanese, BitComet versions prior to 1.20<ref name="BitComet release notes">{{Cite web
| url=http://www.bitcomet.com/doc/changelog.htm
| title=BitComet release notes
| author=BitComet
| access-date=2010-03-27
| quote=Core Improve: use UTF-8 encoding when making torrent file by default for all language versions of Windows.
| archive-date=2010-12-17
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101217053502/http://www.bitcomet.com/doc/changelog.htm
| url-status=live
}}</ref> encoded the files' names and paths using the Windows Chinese/Japanese code page, and stored a UTF-8 version in a non-standard attribute.<ref name="BitCometSpec">{{Cite web
| url=http://blog.bitcomet.com/bitcomet/post_413/
| title=BitComet – Torrent File Format
| author=BitComet Support Team
| access-date=2009-08-26
| quote=In BitComet v0.58 or before, the string is encoded using MSCB (user's code page), and a ".utf-8" key is added for UTF-8 encoded string. In v0.59, the default encoding is changed to UTF-8 if the user's code page is neither Chinese nor Japanese.
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090514092326/http://blog.bitcomet.com/bitcomet/post_413
| archive-date=2009-05-14
| url-status=dead
}}</ref> Starting with the March 2010 release of version 1.20, BitComet's torrent format now conforms to the standard.