Chilkat v11.2.0 Release Notes

Pinned November 3, 2025

Previous Version: Chilkat v11.1.0 Release Notes The main addition in v11.2.0 is the Chilkat.Ai class, and the Chilkat.StringBuilder.MarkdownToHtml method. Ai: The Chilkat AI class provides a unified API for interacting with different AI providers: OpenAI, Google, Claude, xAI, Perplexity, and DeepSeek. It provides functionality for conversation management, multimodal inputs, and streaming mode. Markdown to HTML […]

Semantic Versioning Starting with Chilkat 10.0.0

Pinned September 26, 2024

Starting with the v10.0.0 release (end of September 2024), Chilkat moves to standard semantic versioning.   Prior to this release, for various technical reasons, Chilkat was stuck with versions 9.5.0.xx, where only xx changed. For this first leap to semantic versioning, where the major version changes to 10 (from 9), there are no backward incompatible changes.  […]

Avoid Non-usascii Literal Strings in Source Code

July 30, 2024 in Chilkat

It’s generally not a good idea to use literal strings containing non-usascii chars in your source code, regardless of programming language. For example, in C++ a literal string would be like this: const char *s = “44ης Οδός, αρ.2”; Or perhaps in another programming language, such as DataFlex, it looks like this: Move “44ης Οδός, […]