The UTF-8 is sure the one to adopt. Luckily it exists ;) "Unicode also has all the weird line-drawing characters you could ever want, if you find them important." Indeed. You have a good compatibility, however a limited number of "weid" characters.
However, if you would like to show nice effects, you may use extended one: CP437, for instance, and the windows one is a "standard". This is likely not installed or you may have some "porting" problems. 2013/12/3 Ismael Luceno <ismael.luc...@gmail.com>: > 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. >
