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Re: Followup on the ccharset idea



On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 02:03, Rimas Kudelis wrote:
> Hi again,

> > And Moz 1.4 =)
> 
> `tiz because they use the same engine etc. :) How about IE? there is an
> option to encode url's as UTF-8 AFAIR, right?

There are plugins for MSIE apparenlty...
http://nic.se/english/projekt/programvara_idn.shtml

> > > But IDN support in XChat is a much different issue than changing the
> > > default and/or current character set.  To that issue, I have two
> > > contributions (if you consider them that!) to the discussion:
> >
> > Well, no, not if you are forced to change the charset that the entire app
> uses.
> 
> That's a bug, IMHO ;) It should be *FIXED*, not feature-added.

No, thats how X-Chat is designed, now guess why i want to be able to set
a default charset =).

> > > 1) it's a major pain in the ass to change your character encoding in
> > > Windows.  As near as I can tell, setting a LC_* set of environment
> > > variables doesn't do anything... assuming you know, for example, that
> > > UTF-8 is code page 65001.  I can't find anywhere in Windows to change
> > > the default code page -- only how to change it per-document!  I would
> > > love to be able to tell X-chat to default to CP65001 automatically.
> 
> LOL! of course you can't change the charset in windows! Especially to UTF-8.
> Windows only changes it's default charset when you change your locale
> (Lithuanian/Russian/Swedish). Anyways, Win2000/XP support unicode and use it
> internally, so i guess it's a problem of X-Chat being ported from UNIX, that
> it's not recognized as a unicode app.

Hummm, i admit it's been to long, but couldn't xchat run utf8 on a
common winshit machine? or, gtk2 relies to much on the local os and
stuff?

-- 
Ian Kumlien <pomac@vapor.com>

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