On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 22:27 +0200, deloptes wrote: > José Alburquerque wrote: > > > The point of the docs is to explain the differences between UTF-8 (which > > is a multi-byte encoding) and single-byte encodings. > > as I'm primarily linguist this was some of the first things I learned > about - chars and encoding - I was thinking constantly of the babylon > story. I'm glad there is utf now. But I have the feeling a lot of code is > still having issues.
I'm only trying to help you reach your programming goals. Once more, I hope I didn't offend you. I could be wrong about my answers. I just hope they help. > >> > >> I think currently most systems are utf and are using (8bit) utf by > >> default and I have never had to think about it in the past few years. > >> about 5years ago it was a nightmare > > > > What about systems not using UTF-8? Windows systems? > > all windows systems are utf (or better say UCS) > windows became utf even before linux did - did you know? I wasn't sure about this. However, the output from the test case you posted on Windows led me to suspect otherwise. > > > > > On Windows (using MinGW), the output is garbled: > > > > $ ./a > > A test: Test ascii > > German: Grⁿ▀ Gott! > > well it's then WinGW issue and not windows. Keep in mind that quite a few people developing in C++ on this list use MinGW so it would be wise to keep things working fine there also. -- José _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
