I think there could be a problem with displaying UTF-8 in graphics programs, depending on the windowing system. In my patch for using FreeType and Fontconfig with Unicon (which I haven’t kept up to date), you might have to do something like call XftDrawStringUtf8 where instead I have calls to XftDrawString8. In fact, if I were updating the patch today I’d probably switch to the UTF-8 calls, since I now make frequent use of non-Latin1 letters.
If you are not using graphics (which is usually the case for me) then it just depends on your terminal emulation. Operations on strings in a particular encoding probably do belong in the library. -- Barry.SCHWARTZ at chemoelectric.org http://chemoelectric.org Free stuff / Senpagaj varoj: http://crudfactory.com (PDF) 'Democracies don't war; democracies are peaceful countries.' - Bush (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/12/20051219-2.html)
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