On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 9:45:52 -0800, McDonald, Ira wrote: > Hi, > > A comment on Noah's statement: "It seems to me that there > needn't be a binding between language and encoding at all." > > This is simply wrong. In order to capture character values > for the characters used in a given language (the repertoire of > that language), you need an encoding that has codepoints for > all of those characters. With a few exceptions, if the
Well of course. If you set encoding/codeset to something that doesn't cover your language, you'd see a bunch of question marks. Users would quickly figure out that they can always make everything work by setting ENCODING=UTF-8. :) Noah -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
