Re: Wine and locales

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"David Lee Lambert"  wrote:
> I think it would be best to set the codepage for an app in the 
> [AppDefaults] section.  Codepages are deprecated in favor of full 
> Unicode support,  but specific apps might use ANSI APIs, and might even 
> expect certain locales.  For instance,  Quattro Pro 9 appears to parse 
> text from the clipboard and from ODBC calls as CP437 on my WinME boxes.

Code pages are not deprecated, Win64 has ANSI APIs and I bet all future
versions of Windows will have that support included. Until there are
non-unicode .txt files and there is a need to exchange data with the world
code pages will be used.