> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 08:33:48PM +0200, FRIGN wrote: >On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 19:05:19 +0200 >Markus Wichmann <nullp...@gmx.net> wrote: > >> How about simply calling setlocale()? Or was that too simple? If the >> user has set a non-UTF-8 locale and then uses UTF-8, that's on them! > >POSIX locales are an insane concept. Unicode has already gone a long >way to define sane international collation and sorting sequences which >make sense. The idea of localized differences has its origin in the >sick minds of the POSIX-authors. > >sbase and ubase are one part of a protest against all this locale- >madness. I agree there should be localized date-formats, but everything >beyond that is mostly insane. >We assume a UTF-8-locale and that's it. setlocale is just ugly and imho >not the solution to this issue.
I recently fell back to using only ASCII (or C/POSIX), as I realized I do not use any UTF-8 chars, etc. (Eh, Windows now uses UTF-16 by default from what I hear, and I don't even speak any Asian languages!) Less chars equals less processor and memory usage. ;-) No need for funky apostrophe usage within the English language. Maybe I now need to Internationalize the sound of my surname, because it sounds too ASCII? -- Roger http://rogerx.freeshell.org/
