I have been looking at the data that I have for ISO 8859-6 in particular, and
the UTF-8 spec now has added changes where it is not possible to automatically
generate the 8859-6 support from the UTF-8. Looking back at this, this only
affects one locale, ar_EG.ISO8859-6
I'm inclined to nuke this locale. Apparently 8859-6 was never popular -- at
least according to wikipedia.
Then I looked around, and I see other candidates to remove. Basically, I'm
going to propose removing all the 8-bit character sets *except* Latin-1.
(Latin-1 is too widely used as a stand-in for ASCII.)
Would anyone here miss any other encodings? KOI8-R? 8859-9? 8859-4? etc.
I see value in preserving only ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-15, along with UTF-8
which should serve the entire world. But before I start nuking things, I want
your opinion. Do you use these encodings with illumos or Solaris? Please tell
me!
Thanks.
- Garrett
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