> Ok, there may be few _users_ who use UTF-8 locale. However, a > certain amount of _developers_ are interested in UTF-8 support _now_. > If UTF-8 locale is not available, I think that they tend to hard-code > UTF-8 encoding instead of using LOCALE. IMHO, the hard-code of UTF-8 > is evil because of the reasons which I wrote at the beginning of this > thread.
You are right... the i18n in Linux is not coming well, everybody seems to implement their own scheme... Besides, GNU having choosen a sizeof(wchar_t)==4 doesn't help to encourage using libc's locale support... =/
