On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:10:45 +0100, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>
>   If Windows takes the raw Unicode value (as entered by the user) and
> encodes it in UTF-16 before passing it to the application, that would
> mean that the application must understand UTF-16 as its input from (what
> it perceives as) the keyboard.

UTF-16 is the internal system encoding in all NT-based versions of  
Windows. It is also the encoding in which programs receive incoming  
character codes.


>   Which programs actually support that?

I think most Windows programs are capable of handling Unicode these days.  
Those that do not will either ignore non-ASCII characters or display them  
wrong (typically as boxes or question marks).



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FE

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