[fpc-devel] Unicode support - for the 20th time... ;-)

Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.lists at gmail.com
Thu Nov 20 11:54:54 CET 2008


On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Daniël Mantione
<daniel.mantione at freepascal.org> wrote:
>>
>> What is "system encoding" regarding different OS, locale, ... ?
>
> System encoding is the encoding your files are written in when doing a
> "echo Hello > file.txt".

Good explanation Daniël. :-)  I always wonder that same question.

So on my systems:
  Ubuntu 7.10 that's UTF8
  Windows 2000 that's ANSI (I guess).

On both systems I have UK English locales setup.


Regards,
  - Graeme -


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