Shware Systems <shwares...@aol.com> wrote:
> This is not invention, as even Solaris allows you to turn it off with -s, as
> you point out. It may work fine for the charsets/charmap files Solaris
> historically provides to have escapes active as the default, but this does
> not equate to it being valid for all conforming charsets, if an application
> makes use of localedef, that I see. As such, from a portability standpoint, I
> view not processing escapes as the safer alternative.
What should be the reason for making the standard incompatible to the existing
practice since more than 30 years?
Gettext is a SunOS invention and other implementations are expected to follow
the definition from the reference implementation.
Do you really like to require SunOS to loose backwads incompatiblity?
Jörg
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