Re: putty can shape now..

[Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org>]

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 03:13, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> CP-1256 should not be used in any stage in any software anymore.
> A single-byte encoding for Unicode is already available.  It's
> called UTF-8.
> 

I disagree. Well, if we lived in an idealistic world, perhaps. However,
and especially when it comes to PuTTY, I think it is rather important to
have CP-1256 support at some point.

I think I have gone over this with Musab on IRC some time back. We have
a Samba server in our offices. Workstations are running different
versions of MS-Windows. Most people happen to enjoy naming their files
and folders in Arabic. Windows will save those in CP-1256. Now, in order
for me to administer the box, I ssh to it. Say, I am on a Windows box
and using PuTTY. If PuTTY is not to support such an encoding, what do I
do?

As you can see, reality often dictates what solutions we opt for ;)

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Regards,
Mohammed Elzubeir