Really? I didn't know that. Although I haven't used a Windows machine for any serious use in years, and I'm quite happy to uphold that streak. VirtualBox-emulated environments not withstanding...
I'll spare this mailing list another aimless anti-Microsoft rant. Sure it's heard plenty before, haha. On 23 July 2017 at 03:19, Keith Marshall <keith.d.marsh...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > 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. > >
