On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 12:06:32AM +0200, Antoine Leca 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.
Sorry? I don't even see how this is relevant. NT and POSIX i18n is completely different, so just because NT can do it doesn't mean it's practical here. If you have a point, please say it; I can't even tell whether you agree with the idea (which is not my own) or not. -- Glenn Maynard -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
