On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 04:48:15PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I came across this older mail by Markus:
>
> > General warning: Please do not use the locale name en_US.UTF-8 anywhere
> > outside North America. Some older Solaris documentation suggested that
> > this is the only UTF-8 locale you'll ever need, as locales don't change
> > much sensible beyond the encoding anyway. This is not the case any more
> > today!
>
> The problem is that on many Sun installations, en_US.UTF-8 is the
> only UTF-8 locale available at all!
> A decent solution to this problem would be to handle basic locale
> information ("en_US") and encoding suffix ("UTF-8") separately and
> specifiy that ANY available locale can be suffixed with ANY known
> encoding, so installed de, gb, whatever locales could always be
> run with UTF-8.
> Is anything specified anywhere about this? Perhaps someone might
> nag Sun to fix this broken thing.
Yes, this is actually what is specified in ISO/IEV 15897, that
makes rules no how to name POSIX locales, amongst other things.
You can find it on the WG20 projects page, N610 I belive
Kind regards
Keld
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