From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 10 23:25:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA02600 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 23:25:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from newserv.urc.ac.ru (newserv.urc.ac.ru [193.233.85.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA02402 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 23:24:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joy@urc.ac.ru) Received: from urc.ac.ru (y.urc.ac.ru [193.233.85.37]) by newserv.urc.ac.ru (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA27686; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 12:14:40 +0600 (ESS) (envelope-from joy@urc.ac.ru) Message-ID: <357F75D0.CEBAC766@urc.ac.ru> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 12:14:40 +0600 From: Konstantin Chuguev Organization: South Ural Regional Center of FREEnet X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh CC: Gary Kline , Terry Lambert , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: internationalization References: <6351.897526003@coconut.itojun.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Konstantin V. Chuguev. System administrator of Southern http://www.urc.ac.ru/~joy/ Ural Regional Center of FREEnet, mailto:joy@urc.ac.ru Chelyabinsk, Russia. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message