Hi Garrett,
On 26.01.2012 09:21, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
I have been looking at the data that I have for ISO 8859-6 in
particular, and the UTF-8 spec now has added changes where it is not
possible to automatically generate the 8859-6 support from the
UTF-8.
Looking back at this, this only affects one locale, ar_EG.ISO8859-6
I'm inclined to nuke this locale. Apparently 8859-6 was never
popular -- at least according to wikipedia.
Then I looked around, and I see other candidates to remove.
Basically, I'm going to propose removing all the 8-bit character sets
*except* Latin-1. (Latin-1 is too widely used as a stand-in for
ASCII.)
Would anyone here miss any other encodings? KOI8-R? 8859-9?
8859-4? etc.
I see value in preserving only ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-15, along with
UTF-8 which should serve the entire world. But before I start nuking
things, I want your opinion. Do you use these encodings with illumos
or Solaris? Please tell me!
from what I heard, some east Asia locales are important for their
users, in some countries even mandatory probably. I am trying to find
more details on web.
Thanks.
- Garrett
Best regards,
Milan
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