>> doing a quick websearch, <...> >> claims that Unix(tm) wasn't 8-bit clean until SVR4, in 1988. > >I am not sure why this would be relevant.
Because 7 bits is not enough to handle many languages in the world, nor most languages and English, especially not when you force them into the ISO646-INVARIANT model. And Unix has never been a pretty system to use ISO646-FOO on, as all those characters are used in Unix and C. So any system that wasn't 8-bit clean wasn't in any meaningful way language independent. -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
