On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 12:56:08PM +0100, patrick295767 patrick295767 wrote: > If you are developing C/C++ programs in a terminal environment, you > may know the problem of the codepages. Sometimes in Putty, SSH,... you > may have some problems with characters. > > What about this "Portability" of your terminal applications? - Not > great, isn't it? > > If you would like to have your code portable and also looking the same > on each operating system, it will not be so easy. > > For instance, Latin,... codes are necessary depending on the country. > One which is cool is the CP437. I like the CP437 on Linux for xterm > for nice terminal images, but the problem is that users have not > necessarily all installed. CP437 remains also portable with windows > PDcurses dll (I mean the pdc34dll.zip one, without 'w'). > http://dmr.ath.cx/misc/cp437/ > > > > Would you know a technique to have a way that your application looks > the same on whatever system (Linux, Mac, OS/2, Windows,..)?
Somehow related, and quite new: http://mortoray.com/2013/11/27/the-string-type-is-broken/ Kind regards, -Alex
