Re: "textels" (was: Default character encoding for each operating system?)

2016-09-15 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: jsb...@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bień) > Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 21:12:53 +0200 > Cc: mufi-fonts > > On Thu, Sep 15 2016 at 16:36 CEST, john.w.kenn...@gmail.com writes: > > [...] > > > In the new Swift programming language, which is white-hot in the Apple > >

"textels" (was: Default character encoding for each operating system?)

2016-09-15 Thread Janusz S. Bień
On Thu, Sep 15 2016 at 16:36 CEST, john.w.kenn...@gmail.com writes: [...] > In the new Swift programming language, which is white-hot in the Apple > community, Apple is moving toward a model of a transparent, generic > Unicode that can be “viewed” as UTF-8, UTF-16, or UTF-32 if necessary, > but

Re: Default character encoding for each operating system?

2016-09-15 Thread Philippe Verdy
Not all internals. Many kernel drivers (notably bus drivers) still use an OEM 8 bit encoding in their debugging log (based on an US English locale most often even if the installed version if localized to another version; but I've seen CP850 still used; and you can see some samples in the Event

Re: Default character encoding for each operating system?

2016-09-15 Thread John W Kennedy
macOS, and its offspring, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS, use UTF-16LE for all internals, but readily import and export all versions of Unicode and a good many historic 8-bit and mixed-length codings. In the new Swift programming language, which is white-hot in the Apple community, Apple is moving

Re: Default character encoding for each operating system?

2016-09-15 Thread Philippe Verdy
A better question is what is the default character encoding for the **installed** operating system. Unfortunately it has no single response, because there are several default encodings for several parts of the OS. An OS has lots of components, many of them don't are transparent to the encoding it

Re: Default character encoding for each operating system?

2016-09-15 Thread David Starner
Linux is far less specific than Windows 10. In all recent versions of Debian GNU/Linux, UTF-8 is the most common character encoding, but it is still supported to use ISO-8859-x or I believe even something like EUC-JP. Other distributions may enforce UTF-8 or in rare cases ISO 8859-1 or even

Default character encoding for each operating system?

2016-09-15 Thread Costello, Roger L.
Hi Folks, In a book that I am reading [1] the author mentions "the default character encoding for the operating system." What is the default character encoding of: - Windows 10 - Mac OS - Linux /Roger [1] Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel, p. 165 (footnote 2).