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Re: The C locale
2009/9/22 Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>:
> Let's use the Windows "ANSI" codepage as the character set for the C
> locale, for both the conversion functions and filenames. This means
> CP1252 on Western systems, CP1251 on Cyrillic ones, CP932 on Japanese
> ones, and so on.
I oppose the approach (the ANSI codepage is used at C locale) because
CP932 (the codepage for Japanese) is hostile to the UNIX-like tools.
The reason is that the CP932 format contains a lot of meta characters
as follows.
single character of CP932:
/[\x00-\x7F\xA0-\xDF]|[\x81-\x9F\xE0-\xFC][\x40-\x7E\x80-\xFC]/
This has a ruined influence to the tools that don't see locale.
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IWAMURO Motnori <http://vmi.jp/>
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