Iconv and protocol support is orthogonal to support for using the locale for interactive logins. There is indeed value in removing those we don't need as it takes real work to continue to support them under newer versions of cldr.
Sent from my iPhone On Jan 26, 2012, at 6:58 PM, Gordon Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > A number of places in protocol code need support for various 8-bit > character sets. > For example, you can configure NFS to convert to/from some of these and utf-8 > when serving NFS v2, v3. (NFSv4 does utf-8) > > It would take me a little time to get a complete list, but I remember > seeing things > like EUC-* SJIS-* and various ISO-8859-* sets in use in SMB for some "OEM" > strings (legacy stuff). > > I'm not sure about the need for the locale data for any of those. > Maybe that could go away, but is there much benefit in that? > > > 2012/1/26 Garrett D'Amore <[email protected]>: >>> I use koi8-r & windows-1251 in the PostgreSQL and nginx. In the new >>> projects I use utf-8 only, but I have some old code which I can't rewrite >>> now. >> >> Do you just need support for the encodings (via iconv or whatever) or do you >> need the actual locales to be present on the system? >> >> I'm thinking UTF-8 ought to be sufficient, but I confess I'm not sure I >> understand why the encoding would matter at all for the login locale -- >> except perhaps you might be interfacing with systems via e.g. telnet or ssh, >> which don't support UTF-8 but have a legacy locale. (Are such concerns >> still relevant?) >> >> - Garrett >> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------- >>> illumos-discuss >>> Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now >>> RSS Feed: >>> https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/22003744-45f01c1f >>> Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; >>> Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------- >> illumos-discuss >> Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now >> RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175550-b1877313 >> Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; >> Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > > > ------------------------------------------- > illumos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/22003744-45f01c1f > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
