Glenn Maynard wrote: > > What's being suggested is that locales be generated per-region/language; > eg. tell the system to generate "tr_TR", and then be able to use all > relevant encodings (ISO-8859-9 and UTF-8 and whatever else is convertable). > Case mappings, collation rules, translation text and so on can be stored in > Unicode and converted at runtime, probably still caching common encodings > for speed. > > Seems like a nice, but naive, idea. If such a simple, generic solution > was possible, I'd imagine it would have been done already.
Windows NT did that in 1993. Exactly what you describe. Sorry. Antoine -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
