Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Nick Ing-Simmons wrote on 2002-03-11 12:08 UTC: >> >> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c >> >> For perl I think that we would want to treat "C" and "POSIX" as meaning >> iso-8859-1 rather than ASCII. > >Decide yourself. But understand that sooner or later, the "C" and >"POSIX" locales will be extended from "ASCII" to "UTF-8", and then you >will be faced with a backwards incompatible change if you had ISO 8859-1 >in "C" so far. Backwards compatibility with a future extension of "C"/ >"POSIX" to "UTF-8" is the reason for why under glibc 2.2, "C" is >explicitely ASCII and not "ISO�8859-1" at the moment.
But we have a pile of legacy stuff in US and UK with no locale set at all (which defaults to "C" IIRC) - which have been happily processing iso-8859-1 HTML etc. for years. To suddenly have them barf on �3 or 49� is not acceptable. > >Markus -- Nick Ing-Simmons http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/
