-={ dimanche, mars 29 2015, 15:30:57 -0700 }=-

Hey Kees!

 KvE> would still have lloked nice on the utillity I am not
 KvE> developing. :)

Exactly the same situation here except that there is *only* the utility I am
not developing.  :-)  Hence utf-8 works unlike ftn software which cannot even
get it's pwn bogus crap right nevermind a real world standardized characters. 
;-)

 KvE> I don't mind about ibmpc as it caters to old software that has
 KvE> no knowledge of the CHARSET kludge.

Or CHRS for that matter, with or without a levels parameter.

I have yet to run across latin-9 but have seen people try to pass off cp-1252
as latin1 which is equally as bogus as trying to pass off latin-9 as ibmpc. 
Also I have seen people trying to pass off cp1251 as koi8-r.

utf-8 is the *only* way to go.  8-bit character sets never stood a chance. 
Even 7-bit can get convoluted and I have run across a few nonstandardized 7-bit
charsets in the past (ie not ascii) as well as a few standardized ones that
differ somewhat from ascii.

Life is good,
Maurice

... Don't cry for me I have vi.
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