Callout to DMD hackers

[Russel Winder]

On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 02:14 +0000, Brad Anderson wrote:
[…]
> You can change the file encoding but the default is codepage 1252
> for me (I assume it changes based on your locale but I don't know
> that for certain). It's definitely not UTF-16 encoded. I don't 
> recall ever seeing Windows VS source code encoded with anything 
> other than 1252/8859-1 or (rarely) UTF-8.

I would have thought UTF-8 was the only sensible encoding of Unicode for
general purposes.

Windows is the reason for UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE because Microsoft
implemented things differently to the rest of the planet, and what the
standard said. So the standard got retrofitted.

-- 
Russel.
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