Re: UTF8

[nisse%lysator.liu.se@localhost (Niels Möller)]

"denis bider" <ietf-ssh%denisbider.com@localhost> writes:

> > I'm under the impression that those windows systems all use 
> > utf-8, not different character sets on different systems or 
> > for different users. Then, they don't matter, because they 
> > don't have a problem. Right?
> 
> Windows is a dual-mode platform.

But it still sounds like it doesn't have the problem der Mouse is
having with unix systems.

> Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 natively use 16-bit Unicode, but the vast majority
> of system APIs also come in so-called ANSI versions,

Then the ssh implementation (client or server) can stick to the
unicode api:s, and pass only unicode to the system (optionally with
normalization, if appropriate). 

> Windows 98/Me, a number of installations of which still persist, are
> natively 8-bit and use internally whatever code page is configured for the
> machine.

As long as this code page configuration is system wide, and available
to applications, there should also be no problem. The ssh
implementation only has to convert to and from utf8 (on the wire) and
the system charset, whichever that is.

Regards,
/Niels