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Re: Locales in new libc: eeew!



> > Previously Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> > >  What!! An hexdump? Is someone insane? The SUSv2 standard 
> > (Unix98) allows
> > > using the characters themselves... why would we want 
> > something like this?
> > 
> > Unicode perhaps?
> 
> Definitely Unicode, but he's right that there must be some subset of Unicode
> (either ASCII or ISO 8859-1:1987) that should be usable as is...

 More than that. All characters in unicode do have a name, and that's how
they should be referenced: My name is... <N><I><C><O><L><AACUTE><S>.



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