Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 15:34:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: joy@urc.ac.ru (Konstantin Chuguev) Cc: itojun@itojun.org, tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: internationalization Message-ID: <199806112234.PAA12768@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <357F75D0.CEBAC766@urc.ac.ru> from Konstantin Chuguev at "Jun 11, 98 12:14:40 pm"
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According to Konstantin Chuguev: [Charset koi8-r unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh wrote: > > > > ?? I would prefer going to a full-on Unicode implementation to support > > ?? all known human languages. > > ? This was my first leaning, but I'm increasingly > > ? going toward the ISO families. > > > > Yes, iso-2022 families are quite important for supporting > > asian languages. Unicode is, for us Japanese, quite incomplete and > > unexpandable. > > > Do you mean Unicode does not cover all the CJK characters? > What is "unexpandable"? > > > ? How does the ISO2022 model work here? Isn't it the > > ? same for Japanese and Chinese? > > > > Yes, for Japanese, Chinese and Korean iso-2022 based model (euc-xx > > falls into the category) is really important. However, I > > Why not to support both ISO 2022 and Unicode? Yes, it is more difficult > to > implement. But otherwise we can lose compatibility with other systems. > > > believe that filenames must be kept in C locale for simplicity... > > > IMO, any ASCII-compatible multibyte charset will do. In that case, > if you prefer simplicity, just do not use characters with highest bit > set. > Let me pose the same question, a bit more broadly. Why cannot we support _both_ the ISO and Unicode paradigms? Are these absolutely incompatible systems? Is there some kind of ``religious-war''? Or is it simply too difficult? gary > -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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