Hideki Hiura wrote on 2000-10-26 17:28 UTC:
> > From: "Alexander Voropay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I think, "short" locale names should be _aliases_to_UNICODE UTF-8
> > as Universal (default) Charset.
> [...]
> 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?
It is too early for that today (only a few adventurous geeks run today
in pure UTF-8 environments, and they still run into occasional problems
with common applications that need to be fixed before UTF-8 can be
widely recommended for general use). However, we should look at this
again in a year or so, and by then the time for such a "shock-treatment"
to get rid of legacy encoding might well have come. There has already
been very impressive progress over the past 12 months towards enabling
people to switch completely over to UTF-8.
Until then, I am looking forward to hearing reports from people who have
already completely moved their Linux environment to UTF-8, i.e. who run
their terminal emulators only in UTF-8 mode all day long. What does
still break under UTF-8 and needs to be fixed?
Markus
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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
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