On 22/07/17 15:06, John Gardner wrote: > I was bitten by preconv(1) quite recently, actually. Gonna back Ingo > here. Can I semi-seriously implore the world to only use UTF-8, and > pretend other encodings don't exist?
Not really going to happen, for as long as MS-Windows remains the dominant OS for personal computer platforms. Much as we might like to see this ghastly OS join other dinosaurs, in extinction, it seems unlikely that this will happen any time soon. All MS-Windows internal text APIs are UTF-16LE, (which seems to be about the limit of Microsoft's comprehension of Unicode); the OS is aggressively hostile to UTF-8, (as it is to any encoding which may use more than two bytes to represent a single character/code-point). -- Regards, Keith.
