Michal Suchanek <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/2/7 Patric Mueller <[email protected]>: >> Michal Suchanek <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 6 February 2010 15:23, Patric Mueller <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I'm not sure that the not so common cases you're thinking of are that >> rare. For example, my OS is completely utf-8 capable, but I prefer my >> shell to be in latin1. > > That's certainly unusual, especially given that latin-1 should work in > utf-8 without additional conversion.
That's not correct, the latin1 characters 127-255 are not legal utf-8 characters. You're probably thinking of 7-bit ASCII or that all latin1 characters are equal to the first 255 unicode codepoints? The problem vilistextum faced was how to support multiple character sets at a time when locale support itself was rather flaky in C compilers. I chose to require UTF-8 and then use the wide character functions for handling all strings, so I didn't have to program for specific character sets. But still I had to also require libiconv as iconv in glibc wasn't developed enough at that time and the iconv implementation in Solaris was completely brain-dead AFAIK. Bye Patric -- Homepage: http://bhaak.dyndns.org/ E-mail: [email protected] Jabber: [email protected] ICQ: 23653421 Languages: Deutsch, English (Not fluently: Français, Italiano, Latinum) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
