[hatari-devel] Text encoding (was: Re: [Crossbar emulation] : some infos)

[Thomas Huth]

On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:54:39 +0200 (CEST)
npomarede at corp.free.fr wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Laurent Sallafranque wrote:
> 
> > I had to change Arnaud's name from carré to carre in sound.c,
> > because my text editor didn't accept to open the file.
> >
> > I which this won't hurt anybody.
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Laurent
> 
> This is really strange, what text editor are you using ? Can't you 
> configure it to use iso8859-15 coding (I guess it tries to open the
> file as UTF8).
> 
> If we include some localised strings in hatari or things like that,
> we will need to have some accents or others characters, so removing
> éèà... won't be an option :(

I think we should use UTF-8 as standard encoding. iso8859-15 is fine
for western Europe, but the rest of the world might have trouble with
that encoding. So UTF-8 is the only sane way to go.

 Thomas