Hi,

On Feb 8, 6:21 pm, Johannes Schindelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Kirill wrote:
> > So, do you think Cheetah must be MBCS or Unicode?
> Is MBCS UTF-8 and Unicode UTF-16?  If so, I would lean to
> MBCS, because I prefer UTF-8...
No, MBCS is not UTF-8. More or less precise definition of MBCS (multi-
byte character set) is it is "NOT UTF-16" (not Unicode). In other
words, my XP is set to use Russian for non-unicode applications, in
this case MBCS will be Russian (Windows-1251, which is by the way is
not multi-byte). It's technically possible to set up a Windows to use
UTF-8 for non-unicode applications, in which case MBCS will be UTF-8.
A Chinese version will use Chinese character set (which is multi-byte)
for non-unicode applications.

Hope it helps a bit.

--
Kirill.

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