What encodage should i choose for programming?

[asgard20032]

I know nothing in character encodage. I wanted to know, when we program, which character encodage should we take?

UTF-8, unicode......

And can someone explain me why should i take X one?

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[codestation]

There isn't much to say here: Use UTF-8. If you want some reasoning: is a subset of unicode, backwards compatible with ASCII encoding and covers every human character in the world. There is nothing more awful than someone in your team saving a source file in 8859-1 then another one in shift-jis, losing data in the process.

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[asgard20032]

There isn't much to say here: Use UTF-8. If you want some reasoning: is a subset of unicode, backwards compatible with ASCII encoding and covers every human character in the world. There is nothing more awful than someone in your team saving a source file in 8859-1 then another one in shift-jis, losing data in the process.

Thanks, if i asked, its because i know nothing on character encoding. Does using UTF-8 require any change in a program? Or does the programmer don't see any difference, he get input same way, output same way, and iterate trough string(character array, its in C) same way?

[m0skit0]

UTF-8 is Unicode too btw