17 Jun
2009
17 Jun
'09
2:07 p.m.
Ketil Malde wrote:
If we want to incorporate a translation layer, I think it's fair to only support UTF-8 (ignoring locales), but provide a workaround for invalid characters.
I disagree. Shells and GUI dialogs use the current locale. I think most other modern programming languages do too, but correct me if I am wrong. Still, your ideas about dealing with decoding errors sound useful. Regards, Yitz