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Re: Console codepage setting via chcp?

From: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:50:45 -0400
Subject: Re: Console codepage setting via chcp?

Corinna wrote:
> is it really
> desirable to allow UCS-2 values in UTF-8 strings?

I wouldn't think so. There are many software packages that handle
unicode using their own code (rather than relying totally on OS support)
such as ICU, XERCES-C, python, etc.  I imagine that these packages would
become very confused if given "UTF-8" strings that actually contained
some UCS-2 codes...

Now, maybe the answer is "Don't Do That" and "you should always use OS
routines".

--
Chuck

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