Re: [Gretl-devel] Gretl Cli & Accented file names
On Tue, 9 Jun 2015, Allin Cottrell wrote:
If you google the issue of character encoding in the Windows console,
you'll
see it's a total horror show. (Everyone but Microsoft has settled on UTF-8 as
the most efficient representation of the world's languages. Windows can be
induced to use UTF-8 if the wind is blowing in the right direction and you
hold your mouth right, but natively it uses a mash-up of legacy 8-bit "code
pages" along with the more bloated representations of unicode.)
I was very anti-MS in the past; I must admit they're now much more
co-operative with the rest of the world, but this is the legacy of their
anti-openness, anti-standard, grab-that-cash policies of the nineties.
WARNING: patronising piece of advice follows. Switch to Linux, folks,
really. It's SO much better.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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