Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files

[John Gardner]

Really? I didn't know that. Although I haven't used a Windows machine for
any serious use in years, and I'm quite happy to uphold that streak.
VirtualBox-emulated environments not withstanding...

I'll spare this mailing list another aimless anti-Microsoft rant. Sure it's
heard plenty before, haha.





On 23 July 2017 at 03:19, Keith Marshall <address@hidden>
wrote:

> On 22/07/17 15:06, John Gardner wrote:
> > I was bitten by preconv(1) quite recently, actually. Gonna back Ingo
> > here. Can I semi-seriously implore the world to only use UTF-8, and
> > pretend other encodings don't exist?
>
> Not really going to happen, for as long as MS-Windows remains the
> dominant OS for personal computer platforms.  Much as we might like
> to see this ghastly OS join other dinosaurs, in extinction, it seems
> unlikely that this will happen any time soon.
>
> All MS-Windows internal text APIs are UTF-16LE, (which seems to be
> about the limit of Microsoft's comprehension of Unicode); the OS is
> aggressively hostile to UTF-8, (as it is to any encoding which may
> use more than two bytes to represent a single character/code-point).
>
> --
> Regards,
> Keith.
>
>