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On 2002-01-06, Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Therefore proposal #2: Get rid of set_uformat().
>
> So internally the library works in UTF-8, whatever encoding format the user
> is using ?
I assumed the user would use UTF-8.
> > Then all strings are expected to be UTF-8, but other encodings and
> > convertors still exist for interacting with the Real World.
>
> ...half of which talks 16-bit Unicode, not UTF-8.
That's not nice at all. Where do these strings come from, and how
often would they be mixed with Allegro? Clearly I don't have enough
experience with this.