Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If that weren't safe, Wget would (along with many other programs) have >> been broken a long time ago. In fact, if that were the case, I would >> never have even accepted adding support for gettext in the first >> place. > > well, theoretically it could happen. suppose gettext returns UTF16 > encoded string for example... ;-)
Then gettext would IMHO be broken under that locale, not only for Wget. Perhaps that's why UTF-16 is so frowned upon in the Unix world (with the single exception of Java).
