Re: UTF-8 locales
> > > Ok, there may be few _users_ who use UTF-8 locale. However, a
> > > certain amount of _developers_ are interested in UTF-8 support _now_.
> > > If UTF-8 locale is not available, I think that they tend to hard-code
> > > UTF-8 encoding instead of using LOCALE. IMHO, the hard-code of UTF-8
> > > is evil because of the reasons which I wrote at the beginning of this
> > > thread.
> >
> > You are right... the i18n in Linux is not coming well, everybody seems to
> > implement their own scheme...
> > Besides, GNU having choosen a sizeof(wchar_t)==4 doesn't help to encourage
> > using libc's locale support... =/
>
> If you are suggesting that sizeof(wchar_t) could be 2, then please
> explain what you think mbtowc(&wc, "\360\220\200\200", 4) should do in
> a UTF-8 locale, and why you think that would be easier for
> programmers.
No. I don't base my "suggestion" on ease for programmers. I'm talking about
massive adoption of the same localization technology by everyone.
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