Am 23.02.2012 12:53, schrieb Le_Forgeron:
> Le 23/02/2012 11:57, Invisible a écrit :
>> It seems as soon as you use any encoding other than the Windows default
>> (whatever the hell that is), things get messy, rapidly.
>
>
> On Windows, yes. Even two Windows can be messy out of their natural
> country (around Redmond I believe). (e.g. at work we have some English
> windows and some french ones... they default to a different code page
> (that's a thing back from DOS, a time where printers had micro-switchs
> to provide different mapping not only to the 127-255 range but also
> inside the 33-126 range... none of which usually maps exactly to the
> local code page either)

Huh? I'd have expected French Windows to use Latin-1 as well. Wouldn't 
be surprised about problems with the keyboard mapping though.

Unless you're talking about the command prompt, which may indeed still 
use those old IBM codepages. (But the US-American IBM codepage and 
Latin-1 differ as well, so the only advantage the Redmondians have over 
you in this matter is that their native language doesn't need more than 
95 printable characters in the first place.)

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