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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... =/



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