Zitat von Michael Schnell <mschnell@lumino.de>:

>
> > The point is: if everybody takes care of the fact that ansistrings can
> > be multibyte, having utf-8 in ansistrings (if it's the locale encoding),
> > is no big deal at all.
> >
> I do understand. But (in a real world) do you know anybody who does.
>
> If it would be "appropriate"  for ANSI code handling to take care of
> Multi-byte encoding we would not need locale-based code tables and en
> effect Unicode would not have been invented.

UTF-8 is unicode and it is the system encoding on linux, OS X, some BSDs and
Solaris. So ansistrings are UTF-8 there.


Mattias


