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Yep. José won't be amused.

Even if you do implement a wide character set, I would recommend perhaps learning a language that requires these characters, and develop your OS also in this language, otherwise you may end up with patchy support and some things may break.

Learn another language? My keyboard alone needs unicode support to work properly

(courtesy of the € and ¾ characters)

Combuster wrote:(courtesy of the € and ¾ characters)

What outlandish keyboard do you use? I don't think the Dutch keyboard has 3/4?


JAL

The dutch layout does have the ¾ key (AltGr+6)

Google images got me this (which is exactly what my keyboard contains):

I've seen computer from back in the 80s in Australia and most used the British keyboard layout:


But virtually every computer you find in Australia now has the US standard layout:


I thought not being in the US, we would use a US International keyboard (the one with AltGr). Though logically it doesn't make sense to need the other currencies (we use the dollar ($)) or the accented letters (most English words rarely use accented characters), I think it would be helpful to have ¼ ½ ¾ ’ ©. - Actually, there is no reason I can't simply set my keyboard to US international and add the labels next to my keys!

Edit: it works!¿!

Combuster wrote:The dutch layout does have the ¾ key (AltGr+6)

Yeah, you are right. Here at work I have a Dutch keyboard layout (though set to US). At home I've got a normal US layout, so I couldn't check last night.


JAL