"W. Wayne Liauh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When Linux first came out in the 1990's, we went thru a lot of trouble going
> back and forth b/t the C-locale and the unicode locale(s). The world has
> become flat, and the default should be one of the unicode locales (so that if
> there are any environment-related problems, they could be identified--and
> fixed, during the alpha phase of the next generation of Solaris).
When Unicode was pushed first around 1992, people said that unicode
would solve all problems. Now we know that unicode introduced problems
nobody was aware in 1992.
One important issue is that you _never_ can switch copletely to unicode because
other codings are hard wired into other standards (e.g. CD-Text uses
ISO-8859-1).
> (I spent a good part of the Thanksgiving day working with our friends in
> Russia and Sweden--they were having problems reading files with
> Russian-charactered filenames generated in Windows. It turned out that they
> were running Solaris under the non-unicode ISO8859-1 locale. To the best of
> my knowledge, all the mainstream Linux distros have switched to unicode
> locales. Even Microsoft has chosen to do the same.)
Microsoft uses unicode but they do it in a way that violates POSIX,
so Microsoft is not a good example.
Russian people are not a good exaple too as they in many cases use
koi-8 coding instead of unicode.
Jörg
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