[hatari-devel] [Crossbar emulation] : some infos

Thomas Huth huth at users.berlios.de
Sun Sep 20 12:51:07 CEST 2009


On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:55:06 +0200 (CEST)
npomarede at corp.free.fr wrote:

> UTF8 is supposed to be the most portable, but as we can see on
> berlios the "é" character is not correctly displayed in the commit
> log or in the diff, and many environment don't fully support utf8, so
> as I think we're all using european variations, maybe we should use
> iso8859-15 (which only use 1 byte per char in all the case, instead
> of the variable encoding used by utf8).

No, iso8859-15 is not a good choice: I know there are a lot of Atarians
in eastern european countries and they use a different character set!
So we should either use UTF-8 or plain ASCII.
By the way, doc/authors.txt is also encoded in UTF-8 already.

 Thomas



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