> > 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). > > It's nonsense.
IMHO, please use LOCALE system and wchar_t. In the future, when glibc 2.2? is released, Japanese and other several languages will be supported, I hope. Does someone (especially in Asia) agree with me? Please note, Unicode is not popular at all in Asia. I am sure there are very very few people using Unicode in Japan. Instead, EUC-JP is popular for UNIX and SHIFT-JIS is the OS's coding system for Windows/Macintosh in Japan. I guess EUC-KR is popular in Korea (Am I right? -- I guessed from http://www.debian.org/index.ko.html). You may find that www.debian.org/index.ja.html is written in ISO-2022-JP, not EUC-JP. This is based on a certain technical reason. Yes, I accepted Tcl/Tk 8.2 which uses utf-8. This program has an automatic code conversion faculty in the case of input/output and it uses utf-8 only internally. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
