[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #49685] Change default codepage of text editor to UTF-8 on Windows

[Markus Mützel]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49685>

                 Summary: Change default codepage of text editor to UTF-8 on
Windows
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: mmuetzel
            Submitted on: Wed 23 Nov 2016 06:21:14 PM GMT
                Category: GUI
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Other
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows

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Details:

Octave has a hard life with respect to international (non-ASCII) characters on
Windows and there are a lot of (partly overlapping) open bug reports covering
many different issues.
It would make things easier if we used only one encoding consistently all over
Octave.

At the moment, the standard encoding for the text editor is set to "System" on
Windows. That points to a lot of different codepages dependent on the locale
of Windows (and its standard codepage). UTF-8 is the default codepage on
non-Windows systems. This makes it difficult to exchange Octave files
containing non-ASCII characters between different platform (or different
locales of Windows).

UTF-8 can be used to encode any glyph that is available in Unicode.
Can we also make it the default on Windows?




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