It’s the small things…
September 14, 2006 – 12:01 am..that make a person happy.
Tonight I’ve had to copy-paste somewhat large quantities of text in various languages, some using various scripts (West European latin, East European Latin, Russian cyrillic) between documents that were using different code-pages (sources used CP-1250 or ISO-8859-5, destination was UTF-8), and everything worked, there were no quirks. I know this is a Duh!, but I’ve come to expect some hairy issues to come up, esp. since my last (not-so-)multi-lingual experience with MySQL (MySQL + win32 console programs + .NET programs + Windows locale = recipe for disaster).
So, I’m happy. Thanks go to all the unnamed GNOME and Linux warriors that made this happen.
