Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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
>
I guess the reasons are mainly political. ja_JP.UTF-8 works fine
in SuSE Linux, in fact for me it works much better than ja_JP.eucJP
because it enables me to use German Umlauts at the same time.
Therefore I don't think it is a disadvantage to use ja_JP.UTF-8
instead of ja_JP.eucJP, but nevertheless I'm afraid that many Japanese
users won't like a change to ja_JP.UTF-8 at the moment, mainly because of
because of the Anti-Unicode propaganda.
> - 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.
We have the same problems here with German. Most German users don't
see the need to change from ISO-8859-15 to UTF-8, it is very difficult
to convince German users that this change makes sense.
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