On Thursday, 18 September 2014 at 16:49:14 UTC, ketmar via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 16:24:17 +0000
Ilya Yaroshenko via Digitalmars-d-learn
<digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> wrote:
You can choice encoding for console in Linux
yes. and i chose koi8. yet many utilities tend to ignore my
locale
when reading files (hey, D compiler, i'm talking about you!). i
don't
care about localized messages (i'm using English messages
anyway), but
trying to tell me that my text file is invalid utf-8, or my
filename is
invalid utf-8, or spitting utf-8 encoded messages to my
terminal drives
me mad. what is so wrong with locale detection that virtually
nobody
does that? we have iconv, it's readily available on any decent
GNU/Linux platform, yet it's still so hard to detect that
stinky locale
and convert that stinky utf-8 to it? BS. (hey, phobos, i'm
talking about
your stdout.write() here too!)
the whole "utf-8 or die" attitude has something very wrong in
it.
I didn't know about this encoding. Why should you use KOI8-R
instead of UTF-8? what does it conver that UTF-8 didn't? I used
to think UTF-8 does conver all the alphabets around, japonese
people does use it, isn't?
