Unix default encoding UTF-8?

 
Hi Ian -

Is there any chance you might consider changing the default encoding of
the Unix VM to be UTF-8? Both Mac and Windows come as UTF-8 nowadays and
it would be terrific if we didn't have to tell people that they need to
start their VM with -encoding: UTF-8 in order to deal with their local
variants in file system, clipboard and input.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

 
On Friday 28 Aug 2009 9:46:09 am Andreas Raab wrote:
> Is there any chance you might consider changing the default encoding of
> the Unix VM to be UTF-8? Both Mac and Windows come as UTF-8 nowadays and
> it would be terrific if we didn't have to tell people that they need to
> start their VM with -encoding: UTF-8 in order to deal with their local
> variants in file system, clipboard and input.
+1.

If changing it creates backward compatibility issues, it could be made
conditional by parsing $LANG for encoding hints (*.UTF-8 or its variants).

Subbu

 

On 28.08.2009, at 14:02, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:

I think I saw a commit by Ian doing that already.

Rather useful, those commit messages. And they will ebb away when the  
cmake conversion is complete ;)

> If changing it creates backward compatibility issues, it could be made
> conditional by parsing $LANG for encoding hints (*.UTF-8 or its  
> variants).


This is a totally separate issue. We are discussing how the VM  
communicates with the image. LANG controls how the VM communicates  
with the host.

- Bert -

 
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 02:43:44PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>
> I think I saw a commit by Ian doing that already.
>
> Rather useful, those commit messages. And they will ebb away when the  
> cmake conversion is complete ;)

Yes, it's really helpful to have the commit messages. Great thanks to
whoever made this happen.

Dave