On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Heiko Hund <heiko.h...@sophos.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 November 2011 17:48:54 Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
>> Yes, there are many none unicode environments, and I am not sure what
>> this patch will behave in windows environment as it is SCS-2 not
>> UTF-8.

It is UCS-2 not UCS-16.

>
> I agree on the UCS-16 environment in Windows. Will post a patch for that soon,
> as I'm almost ready with one handling UCS-16 file system related stuff. It'll
> be just a small addition to that patch.
>
>> OpenVPN is also used in embedded systems, such as dd-wrt.com and other.
>> So I guess I would like to see unicode=true parameter on *NIX use
>> UTF-8, on Windows use UCS-2.
>
> Why would that be useful? Does it make a difference if scripts in a latin-1
> environment receive "j\C3\B6rn" or "jörn"? Both forms won't be recognizable
> without additional effort, while being equally harmless.

ANSI can handle j\C13\B6rn without problem, comparing displaying, altering.

>
> Regards
> Heiko
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