Hi, > Before we uglify our code to work around (egregious!) defects in certain > compilers, we should find out whether and where exactly these defects > exist, and whether it's worth targeting the defective compilers.
Using iconv is on the table _anyway_, to properly support "-display curses,charset=$something", so using that for the cp437 table too actually simplifies things and avoids hard-coding tables using \uxxxx as side effect. cheers, Gerd