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From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>
To: Keld Simonsen <keld@keldix.com>, Troy Korjuslommi <tjk@tksoft.com>
Cc: Steven Abner <pheonix@zoomtown.com>, libc-locales@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: locale encodings
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 05:38:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5281BEB1.2010909@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131112012257.GA31828@rap.rap.dk>

On 11/11/2013 08:22 PM, Keld Simonsen wrote:
> Well, the encoding of the source coode of all locales should be 7-bit ascii, for
> maximum portability. Then the target encoding should be recorded via the 
> % charset specification, which gives a list of possible charsets, comma separated.
> UTF-8 should always be included there, but other encodings should also be available.

So one of the points that we've been trying to gather consensus on is:
Is it really important to have 7-bit ASCII? Why not use UTF-8 for the
the locale source? It's readily readable by all editors and allows
language specific comments in teh source files for maximum maintenance.

Cheers,
Carlos.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-12  5:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-11  1:28 Steven Abner
2013-11-11  5:19 ` Carlos O'Donell
2013-11-11 12:58 ` Troy Korjuslommi
2013-11-12  1:23   ` Keld Simonsen
2013-11-12  5:38     ` Carlos O'Donell [this message]
2013-11-12 13:36       ` Keld Simonsen
2013-11-12 14:39         ` Carlos O'Donell
2013-11-12 16:11           ` Keld Simonsen
2013-11-12 14:52         ` Steven Abner
2013-11-12 16:15           ` Steven Abner
2013-11-14  7:47             ` Troy Korjuslommi
2013-11-14 11:33               ` Keld Simonsen
2013-11-14 20:47               ` Steven Abner
2013-11-14 21:17                 ` Steven Abner
2013-11-14 21:17                 ` Keld Simonsen
2013-11-26 17:05 Marko Myllynen

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