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Re: supporting obscure languages
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Eric Blake |
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Re: supporting obscure languages |
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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:14:09 -0700 |
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According to Bruno Haible on 11/28/2009 3:34 AM:
>> b. The "C" locale is not UTF-8. (this need not be the case)
>
> The "C" locale was defined at a time when there was no UTF-8. This
> choice accommodates for output devices that cannot display arbitrary
> Unicode characters (think of ssh into an older Unix system).
But POSIX explicitly allows the "C" locale to use UTF-8, and in fact, that
is the case on cygwin 1.7. Per POSIX, the "C" locale is only portable for
character operations for bytes < 128.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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- supporting obscure languages, Albert Cahalan, 2009/11/27
- Re: supporting obscure languages, Bruno Haible, 2009/11/27
- Re: supporting obscure languages, John Cowan, 2009/11/27
- Re: supporting obscure languages, Albert Cahalan, 2009/11/27
- Re: supporting obscure languages, Albert Cahalan, 2009/11/28
- Re: supporting obscure languages, Bruno Haible, 2009/11/28
- Re: supporting obscure languages, Albert Cahalan, 2009/11/28
- Re: German uppercasing rules (was: supporting obscure languages), Bruno Haible, 2009/11/28
- Re: German uppercasing rules (was: supporting obscure languages), Albert Cahalan, 2009/11/28
- Re: German uppercasing rules (was: supporting obscure languages), Bruno Haible, 2009/11/28
- Re: German uppercasing rules (was: supporting obscure languages), John Cowan, 2009/11/28