seer26 wrote on 2002-11-24 17:26 UTC:
> >
> >o Red Hat Linux now installs using UTF-8 (Unicode) locales by default in
> > languages other than Chinese, Japanese, or Korean.
>
> Any information about why CJK isnt UTF-8 by default?
I'd suspect the usual reasons discussed here many times before:
- narrow/wide glyph width practice with UTF-8 under xterm differs from
traditional CJK width system
- CJK users have already had multi-byte encodings with which they are
happy, therefore they have far less pressure to move away from the
traditional schemes than users of European, African, etc.
languages with their traditional single-byte charset mess.
Markus
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