[Vm-dev] UTF-8 status of VMs?
Bert Freudenberg
bert at freudenbergs.de
Sat Feb 13 02:30:24 UTC 2010
IIRC Ian's VM still defaults to MacRoman. For Etoys we explicitly set the encoding to UTF-8 in the launch script.
How about we require a "4.x" VM to use only utf-8?
- Bert -
On 12.02.2010, at 14:10, Andreas Raab wrote:
>
> Thanks John, that's *great* news!
>
> Cheers,
> - Andreas
>
> John M McIntosh wrote:
>> mac is utf8 for file api, drag drop, and clipboard. On 2010-02-12, at 10:58 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:
>>> Folks -
>>>
>>> Just a quick check on the status of UTF-8 support in the VMs. Do we by now have agreement that all strings coming into the VM and out of the VM should be in UTF-8 by default? Including, but not limited to file and directory names, clipboard contents, etc?
>>>
>>> I'd really like to simplify some of the code to not have to deal with all of these conversions and simply assume that on any path into the VM we perform a UTF-8 conversion and get over with it.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> - Andreas
>>>
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