On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 09:10:38AM -0600, David Starner wrote: > > > David> Users should be able to expect that you can send a file > > David> from one Linux box to another in the same locale without > > David> having to recode it. > > > > They should, but they can't. > > Why not? The main exception is going to be the Euroizing nations, which > are split between ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-15. Everyone else has more or > less one charset standard.
...except Romania, which is/will be changing from insufficient ISO-8859-2 into ISO-8859-16, and other ISO-8859-2 countries, which could probably change into ISO-8859-16 as well to get Euro char (but will break backward compatibility more than ISO-8859-15 does for ISO-8859-1). And except Lithuania (maybe other baltic countries as well), which is using ISO-8859-4, but should really use ISO-8859-14. And except Russia, where, although mostly using KOI8-r charset, ISO-8859-5 is widespread between commercial Unixes and consequently sometimes used on linux too. And for Serbian/Bosnian, these languages are written in both cyrillic and latin script, so the question what the locale (sr_YU) stands for is a bit problematic... Not speaking about various nations from former USSR, where many nations do not even know which scripts are their languages using. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread! -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
