Mike FABIAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> 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.
Presumably there are a lot of character-cell (curses/slang) programs that work in ja_JP.eucJP but not in ja_JP.UTF-8. Maybe enough of them are still widely used for that to be an argument. Edmund -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
