Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 01:35:18 +0300 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/locale big5.c euc.c mskanji.c utf8.c Message-ID: <20031102223518.GA41782@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <3FA582F6.1020605@freebsd.org> References: <200311021009.hA2A9XTU063850@repoman.freebsd.org> <20031102134326.GA7255@nagual.pp.ru> <3FA582F6.1020605@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:19:34AM +1100, Tim Robbins wrote: > I was considering just making them aliases for GB18030 and UTF-8. I > don't see how this could break anything, but maybe I'll do a little > research into how other systems handle GBK/GB18030; UTF2 doesn't really > matter, since it's slated for removal in 6.0. Aliases are bad sometimes, because they expand standard scope. Imagine what happens in case you alias ASCII to ISO8859-1 (you'll got high bit characters junk as printable ones). -- Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/
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