In article <MPG.198c7a70fd0396d989845@news.povray.org> , Patrick Elliott 
<sha### [at] hotmailcom>  wrote:

> Ok.. I just ran a quick search. The character set is called ISO_8859_1,
> or at least some equivalent in it. This is what a file name like "Suba

> 'exactly' like that when viewed in DOS, because the font used there is
> Terminal and Windows used Courier everywhere. This quirk also means that
> other OSs may also show such names using the wrong characters, but again,
> this is not unicode, and it certainly doesn't mean that a file name is
> limited to ISO/ASCII.

No, they don't "show the wrong characters".  They show exactly the right
characters, but you miss the fact that not the whole world uses Latin
characters and a few European special versions of them.  The non-ASCII
characters simply have different "meanings" when using a different operating
system language.  There is no right or wrong, all are right as the same
character code will have a different "meaning" depending on the language
being used, which cannot be encoded in the characters.  That is why Unicode
allows many, many more character codes and even composition of characters to
complex "symbols" used in some languages.

Really, what you say based on observation may fit the limited observations
you have made, but your conclusions are all wrong because you simply don't
know what really happens.

    Thorsten

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