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Re: "C" character set (again)


On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 05:44:11PM +0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> 
>> First of all, Happy New Year to all of you!
>
> :) Likewise
>
>>> Trouble is, Cygwin currently is the only significant platform where
>>> plain "C" implies UTF-8, as far as I know anyway.
>
>> I'm still not convinced that C == C.ASCII is really such a good idea for
>> us.  What other conversion problems are waiting right around the bend?
>> Shouldn't we rather try to fix some of the issues which show up on the
>> list?
>
>  Yeah.  I'm for WJM here.  Takeup of i18n is years behind where it should be.
> If it's ever going to be anything but a joke, we're going to have to switch
>it on always everywhere by default and go through the pain sooner or later.
>Same goes for all the big linux distros; some of them are just starting to
>dabble their toes in the water, they're running up against similar problems.
>Might be kind of nice for Cygwin to be leading the pack amongst *[iu]x distros
>for a change instead of lagging some way behind!

Except that we're not supposed to be a leader in this regard since we
are supposed to be emulating not innovating.

cgf


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