On 28.08.2009, at 14:02, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
On Friday 28 Aug 2009 9:46:09 am Andreas Raab wrote:
Is there any chance you might consider changing the default encoding of the Unix VM to be UTF-8? Both Mac and Windows come as UTF-8 nowadays and it would be terrific if we didn't have to tell people that they need to start their VM with -encoding: UTF-8 in order to deal with their local variants in file system, clipboard and input.
+1.
I think I saw a commit by Ian doing that already.
Rather useful, those commit messages. And they will ebb away when the cmake conversion is complete ;)
If changing it creates backward compatibility issues, it could be made conditional by parsing $LANG for encoding hints (*.UTF-8 or its variants).
This is a totally separate issue. We are discussing how the VM communicates with the image. LANG controls how the VM communicates with the host.
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