A proposal on solve encoding problem on Windows.

Dennis Brakhane brakhane at googlemail.com
Mon Oct 24 18:29:13 UTC 2011


On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 5:51 AM, 罗勇刚(Yonggang Luo)
<luoyonggang at gmail.com> wrote:
> Because the local encoding codepont is limited, that's a SET problem
> cp936 is a SUBSET of UTF8, cp1251 is also the SUBSET of UTF8.
> so you can not use cp936 representing all codepoint of UTF8, so is cp1251,
> and so on.

I'm pretty sure you mean Unicode, not UTF-8. UTF-8 is (the most used)
encoding scheme for Unicode characters.



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