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Notepad++ v7.8.1: Free Uyghur

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Notepad++ has a bit of a history in releasing versions in support of various campaigns, ranging from a "Je suis Charlie" edition to a "Tiananmen June Fourth Incident" edition.

I remember one edition included an auto-typing feature, where a new tab would be opened, and content start typing into it, which frankly was quite alarming for an update of a piece of software that you've been using for a while...

I believe the typing content was itself the changelog for that particular release and the flak received by the author will prevent it from happening again in the future afaik.

I love it that they have a "this is how you can help link". I've read about so many issues that I would to get involved with, but there's I no mention anywhere oh you can actually do something about the problem!

Does this message only show in the release notes? It would be cool to display a link to this on startup, like with Vim and the ICCF-Holland charity in Uganda.

The author writes "The Uyghurs are not ethnically Chinese".

While that's true, it's only because nobody is "ethnically Chinese".

“Chinese” is a nationality, not an ethnicity. Within China, there are 56+/- ethnic groups of which the Han group is the largest.

Thank you. Somehow is cool this days to write non-sense in tech forums. The Kurds are also a large ethnic group in Turkey, so is the author of Notepad++ will be adding a mention to them in the next release note? Native Americans in the US and Canada? Buryats in Russia? and the list goes on and on... but hey, I guess is too hard to do a little research before pretending to be cool.

"Somehow is cool this days to write non-sense in tech forums." - Yes, that's what you are doing. Are about 1+ million of those groups you mentioned in concentration camps for just being from that group? No, so don't make such absurd comparisons.

Edit: Just saw: user: honest_tovarich, created:32 days ago, karma: -2 => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party

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Ethnically Chinese is often used to mean Han, both in English and Mandarin.

time to help Uganda, npp uninstall...

Freedom is the most important value in software development. As a web developer in Hong Kong and loyal notepad++ user, I am happy to see the message!

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