[PROJ] PROJ and Unicode on Windows

[Howard Butler]

> On Apr 5, 2023, at 6:50 PM, Dan Crosby <dan.crosby at lincolnagritech.co.nz> wrote:
> 
>   You are probably right about taste/habit, especially for projects that didn’t start as UNICODE builds. However, I sometimes think open source efforts do themselves no favours in (seemingly deliberately) making themselves harder to use. Especially to ‘casual’ users like myself.

The deliberation is with alignment of other forces impacting the software, especially as API producers and consumers. See http://utf8everywhere.org/ for some deeper discussion on the topic and reasons why projects like PROJ others have made the UTF choices they have.

btw, there's no such thing as 'casual' when it comes to UTF :) 

Howard