Re: Feature request : more encodings support

I think you're right Steve. I've heard the same thing as well
regarding Asian cultures and always giving the appearance of
affirmation to requests. And to me, being a North American (I hail
from both America and America's hat) an honest and transparent answer
is much better than appearing disingenious (at least in Western
culture).

I was speaking from experience though. I took the time to add Big5
(for non-mainland Chinese) and it's probably safe to say my Hong Kong/
Taiwan sales won't cover development costs until the year 2310.
Finland, a country with half the population of those two areas has
several times more users.

I have so many many features still on the roadmap, RDP, 4.0
multitasking, ssh-agent services, VNC and console refinements that
everyone literally the world over can use that my time is best spent
on these features.

joonhwan, I appreciate you voicing your opinion on this matter and
don't think I take any of this lightly. In an ideal world I would
have every encoding and every feature ever imagined wrapped up into
one amazingly usable product. Unfortunately this is not the case.
The craziness really begins when one realizes that the distribution of
iPhones, iPods and iPads is weighed heavily with the States. I've
seen plenty of Canadian-specific apps created only for their
developers to all of the sudden realize just how small the Canadian
store is compared the American one. This isn't to say that only
Americans get to dictate the feature roadmap, but speaking strictly
economically and to what features will be used, Americans will get a
larger say in what is implemented vs. what is not.

This could all change however if Korea at some point demonstrated
itself as a significant market for iSSH. You're probably correct with
your 600,000 number of iPhone/iPod users. But how many of them use an
ssh client and are connecting to terminals that don't support UTF-8?
If this changed I would be more than willing to rethink my current
placement of Korean encodings on the roadmap.

Dean

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