On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 12:59:59 +0100 Troels Henriksen <at...@sigkill.dk> wrote: > patrick295767 patrick295767 <patrick295...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Would you know a technique to have a way that your application looks > > the same on whatever system (Linux, Mac, OS/2, Windows,..)? > > Use UTF-8. Seriously, different character sets are such an incredibly > sucky thing that nobody should consider re-introducing them, unless > necessary to interact with legacy systems. (Of course, one should > consider Windows to be legacy...) Unicode also has all the weird > line-drawing characters you could ever want, if you find them > important. > > On which systems are the Latin-set of code pages still necessary? >
Have you heard of UTF-8? Try using luit for legacy applications.
