Jungshik Shin wrote on 2001-04-17 10:32 UTC:
> Do you really think that UTF-8 support in Linux is better than
> that in Solaris and AIX? I don't have any significant experience with
> UTF-8 under Solaris and AIX. However, AFAIK, both of them have offered
> UTF-8 locales since mid-1990's while Linux/glibc just got there several
> months ago as you wrote.
Last time I looked at Solaris, its xterm didn't support UTF-8 and the
normal X11 fonts were not available in ISO 10646-1. I didn't want to
change to a new terminal emulator or a new font just because of UTF-8.
So I didn't look much further and started to work on fixing these most
basic things for XFree86 in September 1998. It would indeed be
interesting to see, how well the latest Solaris runs today with UTF-8
locales. However, my department here is phasing out Unix workstations,
because Linux-PCs are cheaper and do everything we need them to do, so I
don't have a way to get easy first-hand experience on commercial Unix
variants any more.
Markus
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