I am not so sure if you can get all the unicode well displayed on most terminals.
If you make a nice art / ascii graphic, you are never sure whether it will end well displayed depending on the system/terminal, that the user uses. example of various chars: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2500.pdf I think about various possible POSIX and non-POSIX platforms, which allow compiling with gcc or g++: BSD variants: FreeBSD 9.0, 8.2, 7.0, 6.4, 4.9 OpenBSD 4.9 NetBSD 5.1 GNU/Linux Slackware 13.x Debian 6.0, 5.0, 3.1 Fedora 13-16, CentOS 4-6 Mandrake 2010 SuSE 11, 12 AIX 5.3, 5.1 (cc, gcc) BeOS R5 Cygwin HPUX 11.23, 11.11, 11.00, 10.20 IRIX64 Mac OS X 10.7 OS/2 EMX 0.9d (gcc 2.7.2) QNX 6.1 SCO OpenServer 5.0.5e (cc/CC, gcc 2.7.2.3) Solaris 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 2.51 Tru64 (aka OSF1 and Digital Unix) 4.0d, 5.1 (cc) Windows 7, using MinGW 2013/12/3 patrick295767 patrick295767 <patrick295...@gmail.com>: > 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. >>
