Bug#99933: Bug#99324: Default charset should be UTF-8
Raul Miller <moth@debian.org> writes:
> > I am really not sure if unicode went the right way, I feel the ability
> > to display Chinese name in a Japanese document using Chinese glyphs
> > (or vice versa) is something that should not be get rid of...
>
> And, this could be rectified -- with Unicode 3.1, they have the code
> space to represent each major representation of the character set.
IMHO, a better mechanism are Unicode 3.1 language tags, see:
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr27/#tag
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