Re: Locales: An Analysis

[Ilya Zakharevich]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 12:12:25AM -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> > > So: The _string_encoding_ state of each OP must be one of these:
> > >   0. the default -- follow each string's current encoding
> > >   1. "use byte"  -- all strings are one-byte
> > >   2. "use utf8"  -- all strings are UTF-8 (*not* necessarily Unicode!)
> > > 
> > > And the _character_set_ state of each OP must one of these:
> > >   0. the default  -- characters are Latin-1, UTF-8 is Unicode
> > >   1. "use locale" -- characters are $ENV{LANG} (set at runtime)
> > 
> > Too complicated
> 
> For users, or for us?

This is an interesting question indeed.  For us: definitely.  But for
users?  Maybe too...  Anyone having ideas?

Ilya