>> seer26 wrote on 2002-11-24 17:26 UTC:
>>> >
>>> >o Red Hat Linux now installs using UTF-8 (Unicode) locales by
default in
>>> > languages other than Chinese, Japanese, or Korean.
>>>
>>> Any information about why CJK isnt UTF-8 by default?
>>
>> I'd suspect the usual reasons discussed here many times before:
>>
>> - narrow/wide glyph width practice with UTF-8 under xterm differs
from
>> traditional CJK width system
>
> I'm afraid that many Japanese
> users won't like a change to ja_JP.UTF-8 at the moment, mainly because
of
> because of the Anti-Unicode propaganda.
Right, there is a large disaffection of unicode among Japanese CS
people, mainly
concerning han-unification. (They feel that chinese glyphs have as much
ho do
with japanese as ancient latin does with english) Also, utf-8 in
particular is
disliked in favor of (ick) utf-16, because utf-8 is genarally 150%
larger for
any japanese text.
Also, there is the problem that its really not possible to show both
chinese and
japanese together in a simple text document, because no one font can
show
chinese, simplified chinese, and japanese all at once.
Anyway, the original question was why *Red Hat* decided not to ship
utf-8
on by default for those locales. I was imagining that there must be some
technical reason, because despite its drawbacks, utf-8 is still much
more
advantageous, so political sensitivity alone doesnt seem reason
enough...
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