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Re: multibyte C locale

To: Glen Seeds <Glen.Seeds@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: multibyte C locale
From: wollman+austin-group@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:03:38 -0400
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<<On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:46:54 -0400, Glen Seeds <Glen.Seeds@ca.ibm.com> said:

>> [I wrote:]
>> Turn it around: of what value is the POSIX locale without such a
>> requirement?

> The value is considerable, if we can find a way to accommodate UTF-8.

I don't see it.  What's the use case?  I can see a value to
applications in being able to configure a locale that acts like
pre-locale Unix and C did; I don't see a value in configuring a locale
that doesn't behave like traditional Unix, but isn't usefully
localized either.  ("Traditional Unix" behavior is normally what I
want pretty much all the time.)

-GAWollman

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