From: Thomas Thomassen <thomas@...>
Date: 2009-07-15T17:59:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8 - character encoding

Bill Kelly wrote:
> From: "Thomas Thomassen" <thomas@thomthom.net>
>> James Gray wrote:
>>> 
>>> That's a good question.  I'm not sure what it does on Windows.
>> Any clues what I does on OSX? The scripts will run on macs as well.
> 
> Unlike that other OS, both OS X and Linux have taken an approach
> I like to refer to as, NOT MIND-NUMBINGLY STUPID.
> 
> In OS X and Linux, one can use the same API calls one has always
> used, as they are now UTF-8 savvy.
> 
I found from the Windows API that you actually are meant to call the 
same API calls. But there's a unicode switch you have to declare. If 
that switch is true it calls the W (wide - unicode) versions, if not it 
calls the A (ASCII) versions.
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