From: Hideki Hiura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:28:32 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: "Alexander Voropay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I think, "short" locale names should be _aliases_to_UNICODE UTF-8
> > as Universal (default) Charset.
>
> I hope that was the case from late 80s when locales were widely
> introduced on many systems which still exist in volume with their
> successors, but all of such systems I know of treat such short locale
> names as aliaes to non-UTF-8 locales for long time.
>
> So are you suggesting we should rather intentionally break the
> compatibility with those existing systems so that people gets the
> hint of getting a rid of legacy encodings as a shock-treatment?
Many systems have been used their "short" locale name
not to assume codeset == UTF-8.
For example, most system interpret "ja_JP" as "ja_JP.eucJP".
Breaking this back compatibility gives us greatly confusion, IMHO.
Regards,
-- GOTO Masanori
-
Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels
Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/lists/
