On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 02:14 +0000, Brad Anderson wrote: […] > You can change the file encoding but the default is codepage 1252 > for me (I assume it changes based on your locale but I don't know > that for certain). It's definitely not UTF-16 encoded. I don't > recall ever seeing Windows VS source code encoded with anything > other than 1252/8859-1 or (rarely) UTF-8.
I would have thought UTF-8 was the only sensible encoding of Unicode for general purposes. Windows is the reason for UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE because Microsoft implemented things differently to the rest of the planet, and what the standard said. So the standard got retrofitted. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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