On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 03:13, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > CP-1256 should not be used in any stage in any software anymore. > A single-byte encoding for Unicode is already available. It's > called UTF-8. >
I disagree. Well, if we lived in an idealistic world, perhaps. However, and especially when it comes to PuTTY, I think it is rather important to have CP-1256 support at some point. I think I have gone over this with Musab on IRC some time back. We have a Samba server in our offices. Workstations are running different versions of MS-Windows. Most people happen to enjoy naming their files and folders in Arabic. Windows will save those in CP-1256. Now, in order for me to administer the box, I ssh to it. Say, I am on a Windows box and using PuTTY. If PuTTY is not to support such an encoding, what do I do? As you can see, reality often dictates what solutions we opt for ;) -- Regards, Mohammed Elzubeir _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
