On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 10:55:58PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > > > 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. > > No. I don't base my "suggestion" on ease for programmers. I'm talking about > massive adoption of the same localization technology by everyone.
Which includes the Chinese and Japenese, who need the characters found in the Supplementary Ideographic Planes, which means 4 byte characters. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dvdeug.dhis.org Looking for a Debian developer in the Stillwater, Oklahoma area to sign my GPG key
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