Nicol�s Lichtmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Ok, there may be few _users_ who use UTF-8 locale. However, a > > certain amount of _developers_ are interested in UTF-8 support _now_. > > If UTF-8 locale is not available, I think that they tend to hard-code > > UTF-8 encoding instead of using LOCALE. IMHO, the hard-code of UTF-8 > > is evil because of the reasons which I wrote at the beginning of this > > thread. > > You are right... the i18n in Linux is not coming well, everybody seems to > implement their own scheme... > Besides, GNU having choosen a sizeof(wchar_t)==4 doesn't help to encourage > using libc's locale support... =/
If you are suggesting that sizeof(wchar_t) could be 2, then please explain what you think mbtowc(&wc, "\360\220\200\200", 4) should do in a UTF-8 locale, and why you think that would be easier for programmers. Edmund
