Re: [RFC] Multibyte char handling

Hi Pierre, On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > > On UNIXes, UTF-8 encoding is popular terminal encoding, but there > > would be systems using other encoding such as EUC, or even SJIS, BIG5. > > Right, and as far as I remember UTF-8 does not suffer from this problem. > UTF-8 does not have this issue if terminal handles encoding correctly. I think almost all termianls handle UTF-8 properly, otherwise it is considered as security hole :) > > Windows uses different encoding for terminal encoding according to > locale, > > so it's much more complex. > > > > Let me provide a function to detect it, but we need something to normalize > the names. Do we have such thing in mbstring? > Yes. mbstring has ID for supported encoding and there is normalize function to set encoding ID. > > This is the reason why I would use locale. However, this implementation > > is debatable. > > > > Yes :) > We need to decide what to do :) Regards, -- Yasuo Ohgaki yohgaki@ohgaki.net