Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses; I think I wrecked my fresh install

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On 30/12/20 01:04, Grant Edwards wrote:
> You must be talking about some sort of weird "wide" encoding (is there
> such a thing as UTF-16?). I've never seen a file like that.  Everybody
> and everything uses UTF-8 these days and has for years. UTF-8 is a
> superset of ASCII, and doesn't increase size of the file unless
> non-ascii characters are used. Converting an ASCII file to UTF-8
> encoding is a noop. An ASCII file _is_ UTF-8.

There is utf-16 - MS's default version. They wrote their unicode support
*before* utf-8 really was a thing. So we have the nix's settling on an
8-bit char, and MS settling on a 16-bit char BEFORE that. Unbaking that
mess would be fun ...

So that file is probably something to do with MS and ASCII-16 :-)

Cheers,
Wol