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

npomarede at corp.free.fr npomarede at corp.free.fr
Sun Sep 20 13:09:57 CEST 2009


On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Matthias Arndt wrote:

> Am Sonntag, den 20.09.2009, 10:32 +0200 schrieb Thomas Huth:
>> 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
>
> I agree! UTF-8 is the official ASCII successor and any modern system can
> use it. Berlios probably just needs to fit their tools. IMHo it's a bug
> on the end of Berlios if they can't display UTF-8 properly.
>
> Matthias

Yes, it's a bug (or maybe a configuration parameter to change), but still 
it's sad that our main entry point for people interested in development 
doesn't correctly display the files by interpreting them as utf8.

Nicolas




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