UTF problem?

[Timo Schulz]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:07:56AM +0100, Werner Koch wrote:

> As the name suggests, it is just a simple implementaion of it with
> the benefit that we can have just one gpg.exe without requiring
> additional DLLs.  

Yes, I know. That was the reason why I used it ;-).
And for me it works perfectly.

> BTW, are you sure Windows uses UTF-8?  I have my doubst:  Most
> functions come in a fooA and fooW version, where the latter takes
> what MS calls Unicode but actually is the UCS-16 (2 bytes per
> characters) encoding which is not suitable for some languages
> becuase Unicode is a 32 bit character set. 

Sorry, my mistake. It didn't want to say that. I believe Windows
only support Unicode, too.

 
> IIRC, the gettext version for Windows takes UTF8 and translates it
> to the Windows characters set.  We should go this way, which might

Yes, but there is a difference between the console charset and 
the gui charset.


Timo

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