BH> He is not repeating it to make it more true. He is repeating it to
BH> make people aware that
BH> A program cannot be considered properly internationalized
BH> until it obeys the current locale (LC_ALL || LC_CTYPE || LANG).
Tomohiro-san is trying to make this a universal rule. Tomohiro has
oft expressed the opinion that ilka piece of software must absolutely
respect LC_CTYPE throughout its interface with its environment.
I do not believe this is true. In a number of places, a program must
interact with its environment in a locale-independent manner. This
includes selection conversion, keyboard input, and arguably interac-
tion with the file system.
Lack of understanding of this basic principle leads to absurdities
such as Emacs' ``selection-coding-system'' variable.
Regards,
Juliusz
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