Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author: Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> Locale-dependency is a mandatory. All text-handling softwares which
> don't obey LC_CTYPE should be regarded as buggy.
>
That is not the problem. There is a *MAJOR* problem with the locale
API: it's global state. There is a lot of software that has to switch
locales on the fly, and they generally don't expect things like open()
to be affected by the locale!
> I don't know if fopen() should implement encoding conversion or not.
> However, if not, each application software will have to convert UTF-8
> from/to locale-encoding.
>
> UTF-8 is a mere one of encodings which are supported by locale.
The only sane combination of things is to use locale-dependent
encodings for interchange only. Getting it into Unicode as soon as
possible is the only sane way to deal with it. I say that as a
non-English-speaking European, who has a fairly large body of things
in ISO 8859-1...
Yes, it's a pain. However, at least it will hopefully be like banging
your head against the wall: it feels really good when it stops. If we
do this right this will be the last time we have to bang our heads
against the wall like this.
-hpa
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