"Paul Prescod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> The bizarre Windows behavious of using different
>> encodings for console and GUI programs doesn't
>> bother me either. Really. I promise."
>
> So according to this philosophy, Windows and Mac users will probably
> never be able to open UTF-8 documents by default even if every
> Microsoft app generates and consumes UTF-8 by default, because
> Microsoft and Apple will probably _never change the default locale_
> for backwards compatibility reasons.
This can be solved for file reading by making a "Windows locale"
always consider UTF-8 BOM and switch to UTF-8 in this case.
It's still unclear what to do for writing on Windows.
I have no idea what Mac does (does it typically use UTF-8 locales?
and does it typicaly use a BOM in UTF-8?).
--
__("< Marcin Kowalczyk
\__/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
^^ http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/
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