Hi, At Sun, 04 Nov 2001 14:13:42 -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
> Yup; having an internal API dependent on locale seems like a bad idea to > many of us. Codeset conversion belongs at the application interface to > persistant data; internal APIs should use Unicode. As I wrote many times, I think it is opposite. Using Unicode API will force application to implement encoding conversion while locale API won't force it. This is because locale encoding is used for all stream I/O. (Of course locale encoding will be UTF-8 under UTF-8 locales.) --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
