> There are LOTS of legacy software (not necessarily standard OS or office > software, but also private softwares used in administrations, banks, and > various > private organizations, etc...) which are needed today and will need to > continue > to work for many years as there's not a lot money to adapt them to Unicode > immediately, but that must be used coherently with a 8-bit charset that > will > match the languistic needs.
I forwarded the original mail of Aso to 2:5087/0
