On Thu, 2014-11-13 at 19:03 +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> Legacy 8-bit character set is something like ISO 8859-1 (also known as 
> Latin-1)?

Right.

> Do you need real UTF-8 reader names?

Not at all. I just need my code to Do The Right Thing™ with the strings
it's given. If they are UTF-8 then I can just print them through my
normal 21st century output handling (in error and status messages), but
if they're legacy charsets then I'll need to know *what* legacy charset
they are and convert it.

> > But what about other IFD drivers ?
> 
> No idea.

I think this is something that pcsclite basically defines, and the IFD
drivers ought to follow. Either you declare that it's all UTF-8,
everywhere (which is the sane option in 2014), or you declare that it
follows $LC_CTYPE (which I think would parallel the Windows
SCardListReadersA function).

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dwmw2

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