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lhmouse / nano-win

GNU nano text editor for Windows [WARNING: The master branch is constantly rebased and force-pushed so don't expect it to be steady!! -end WARNING]
https://files.lhmouse.com/nano-win/
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Why compiled with the flag "--disable-utf8"? #35

Open eabase opened 2 years ago

eabase commented 2 years ago

Why is UTF-8 disabled in the compilation? Most systems are using UTF-8... and many issues may be related to this. E.g. #8

lhmouse commented 2 years ago

Windows is not one of the 'most systems'. I have been aware of the experimental UTF-8 support since Windows 10, but it also suffers from compatibility issues (for example Windows Console still speaks UCS2 instead of UTF-16). There isn't much we can do.