[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #47571] Problem with umlaut in command line

[anonymous]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #47571 (project octave):

Situation: wchar_t and std::wstring are almost never needed in Linux & Mac,
where UTF-8 is used. Using wchar_t and std::wstring are common in Windows,
which uses UTF-16.

Option 1: keep Octave as it is, and configure the OS to convert UTF encodings
as needed. Can be painful for the user if they use legacy software that needs
Windows-1252 encoding. Otherwise, converting everything to UTF-8 will help, as
described here: http://www.utf8everywhere.org/

Option 2: make extensive use of typedefs or (worse) #IFDEF statements where
needed to support cross-platform UTF encoding differences. Very complicated
and not practical.


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