Re: support for multilingual Packages files?
On 12-Jul-01, 03:35 (CDT), Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk> wrote:
> the key poin is _existing_
> Unicode support is improving all the time.
The key point is _existing_. Yes things are improving, but they aren't
there yet.
<rant>
So far as I can tell, I can't even set a single consistent set
LANG/LC_ALL/whatever for US english using ISO-8859-1 that doesn't have
*something* complaining about unknown locale. One program/library wants
uppercase, another wants lowercase, some want dashes, others want
underscores, and yet others want neither. When the I18N/L10N community
can decide on what the actual locale/character encoding names *are*,
then we can talk about how to use them.
</rant>
(Note that I'm ranting about the tools, not the concepts).
Steve
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