On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 12:59:59 +0100
Troels Henriksen <athas_AT_sigkill.dk> wrote:
> patrick295767 patrick295767 <patrick295767_AT_gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Would you know a technique to have a way that your application looks
> > the same on whatever system (Linux, Mac, OS/2, Windows,..)?
>
> Use UTF-8. Seriously, different character sets are such an incredibly
> sucky thing that nobody should consider re-introducing them, unless
> necessary to interact with legacy systems. (Of course, one should
> consider Windows to be legacy...) Unicode also has all the weird
> line-drawing characters you could ever want, if you find them
> important.
>
> On which systems are the Latin-set of code pages still necessary?
>
Have you heard of UTF-8? Try using luit for legacy applications.
Received on Tue Dec 03 2013 - 13:58:38 CET