Unicode, i18n support

Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry at baikal.ru
Mon Apr 1 08:04:29 CST 2002


"Shachar Shemesh" <wine-devel at sun.consumer.org.il> wrote:

> >Probably I didn't make my position clear enough and somehow you
> >misunderstood me and decided that I propose to use code page 20866
> >instead of 1251 for russian locale under Wine. But that's not the case.
> >I only proposed to create filenames on disk in encoding used natively
> >in Linux.
> >
> Will Windows then be able to read them in Russian?

Sure, thanks to magic mounting options I mentioned earlier. Native Linux
localized applications know nothing about anything other than KOI8-R, and
filenames created by them on a vfat partition are readable under Windows
just fine.

> If not, I think 
> having compatibility problems is not worth it.

Yes, I also think so.

-- 
Dmitry.






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