> One problem, however, is what to do on Windows 9x and on Gtk 1. We
> would need to convert utf-8 to iso. But to which iso? A easy solution
> is to just convert to western european iso.
Actually there must be ways of getting the current running environment's
preferred character set. Under Linux you could use the LANG environment
variable to determine what language the desktop is in, and call the best
character set for that, surely the windows API must provide something
similar ?
A.J.
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A.J. Venter
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