Re: UTF-8 on stdout?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Andrew Ferrier wrote:
> Those were the problems I was referring to :). I think I was
> getting mixed up with my terminology: I see your point and I
> think I understand. I won't worry about it too much then. I was
> thinking of old-fashoned ANSI (255 chars) --- I have to admit I
> have no idea how this maps onto character sets these days,
> though I think what I'm thinking of basically is Latin-1.
> That's the same as ISO 8859-1, right?

Yes, that's indeed the very same '-1':)

> In fact, the more I think about this, the more I get confused.
> I can't seem to find any good introduction/references to all
> this stuff on the web. Does anyone know where I can go to learn
> more about character sets etc. these days?

Ick... no, not really.

> I will leave the output as it is, write the AUTHORS dependency
> etc., and then the bug can be closed.

Sounds good.

-Lars

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