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?

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