On Thu Oct 26 20:18:25 2000 +0300 Alexander Voropay wrote:
> Hi!
>
> As it is known, a lot of languages (locales) have more than one
> "encodings" (charsets).
> ru_RU.KOI8-R
> ru.RU.ISO8859-5
> ru.RU.CP-1251
> ja_JP.ISO2022-JP
> ja_JP.Shift-JIS
> ja_JP.EUC-JP
>
> Otherwise, locale name defined as :
>
> language[.TERRITORY[.Codeset]]
>
> So, there are "short" locale names where we'll lost "Charset" information.
> ru
> ru_RU
> ja
> ja_JP
>
> I think, "short" locale names should be _aliases_to_UNICODE UTF-8
> as Universal (default) Charset.
>
> ru --> ru_RU --> ru_RU.UTF-8
> ja --> ja_JP --> ja_JP.UTF-8
You may add 'lt' here as well as many others for completeness.
>
>
> Any comments ?
>
Me too ;) After all if you want to use one of many legacy charsets you should
give some information which one you want to use (I now about nl_langinfo(CODESET) but
this doesn't always work).
--
☻ Ričardas Čepas ☺
~~
~
-
Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels
Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/lists/
