On Thursday 2 September 1999, at 16 h 50, the keyboard of "Oliver Elphick" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have had a request for a postgresql package with multibyte support. I assume you noticed the thread on debian-devel under the titles "Debian-JP discussions; lets wrap this up" and "this all this xxx-jp nonsense (was: Re: ITP: grep-ja)". This is almost exactly the same problem. I remind you that the multibyte option has frequently a huge cost in size and speed. In that case, two packages from the same source is a reasonable choice. > In one sense, this is only an issue because of Anglo-Saxon parochialism. Well, actually, we have three groups: - English-speaking people, who are fine with US-ASCII, - European-languages-speaking people, who are quite happy with 8bits ISO-8859-* and locales, - Asian-languages-speaking people, who need Unicode (and therefore multibyte). The second category has no longer any problem with Unix, almost all the programs are 8bits-clean now, sometimes with a bit of tinkering. The problem is with the third one. You are not Anglo-Saxon-centric if you refuse multibyte and Unicode. Just European-centric :-)
