Keld wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:26:08AM +0200, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > keld wrote: > > > ISO 15897 also has some fallback rules. I think that could be > > > extended in some way, so that you may specify more locales to > > > chose from, like it is done with accept-language: in http. > > > I think some software already does this. Current glibc supports > > > ISO 15897, but that support is going to be removed, as far as I know. > > ?? This is again just stupid. > > I am not sure what you mean is stupid. Sorry, of course I meant it's stupid if glibc is going to remove support of "generic" handling.
> I would like to see locale support in a generic way, just > as you described it, with the tables stored in 10646 and then > the individual charmaps applied. I am not sure how to do > this in an efficient way, tho. Why should it be inefficient to separate encoding tables from locale handling? Kind regards, Thomas -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
