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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Locale stuff: call for conclusion.
To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman)
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> > Why do you dislike the #ifdef XPG4?
> 
> > It seems the sane soloution for code transitioning... the code can't
> > all be transitioned to runic support at once, and runic support is
> > less than useful at present in any case because of ISO 2022 and
> > shift-JIS not quite fitting XPG/4 in any case.
> 
> I think the most sensible thing to do is to simply say ``multibyte
> locales are not supported'' and leave the code in for someone who
> actually uses such locales to find any problems.

This is workable, but it is less friendly for the transition from
8bit clean to rune-capable code.  If I'm running a runic environment,
this will cause transitioned 8bit clean code to fail.

Wouldn't it be better to allow it to be tackled in two stages instead
of all at once?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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