Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > At the very least we need to support non-UTF-8 locale selections by the
> > user without having to update this file, and if that's done then why
> > bother with this system-wide setting?
>
> Solaris is phasing out non-UTF-8 locales, and it's getting harder and harder
> to login to one.
UTF-8 does not solve all problems and it even introduces other problems.
Many Sun customers use ISO-8859-1
Most Russian people seem to use koi-8
CD-Text is based on ISO_8859-1 and non-Unicode based Japanese coding, you cannot
change this.
J?rg
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