On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Simon Slavin <slavins at bigfraud.org> wrote:
> > On 27 Nov 2015, at 7:03pm, Igor Korot <ikorot01 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > But what about Linux/Mac? > > Can I use that function there? > > Code pages are a Microsoft thing. Macs just have ASCII and Unicode, with > easy-to-use system functions to convert between them. There's no need to > worry about locales and code pages and Latin-1 and wstring. > > For Linux, I don't know. But it would be a lousy Linux implementation > which required anything fancy. > This may be true of OS X, but it not true of Mac all through history. They might not have been called "code pages" but Mac most definitely had different character sets to support different markets. -- Scott Robison
