How do we handle unicode (utf-8) codepages?

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Shachar Shemesh" <wine-devel at shemesh.biz> wrote:

> What do we do if the user requests a Unicode codepage? I've just had a 
> conversation with a user on IRC where I believe things didn't work for 
> him because LANG was set to es_ES.UTF-8.

What exactly doesn't work for him? UTF-8 is a perfectly valid and supported
by Wine locale.

> On one hand, I don't think we 
> can force ANSI applications to work in Unicode. On the other hand, we 
> cannot change the locale - it will mean noone (whether ANSI or not) will 
> not be able to access non-ASCII file names and files.

Wine uses first part of the locale (es_ES in your case) to setup current
ANSI code page, and uses UTF-8 for X11 keyboard input/file names. Look
for CP_UNIXCP support I've added some time ago.

-- 
Dmitry.