> I do not think that the Solaris 8 libc supports an UTF-8 locale.
>
> > I don't see much more to do (the combining code uses 16-bit charcters
> > internally, so converting to UTF-8 and then to 16-bit is needed).
> > One alternative as a last emergency could be to write special code as
> > fallback for at least ISO-8859-x to/from UTF-8, but this seems close to
> > reimplementing Iconv.
> >
>
> Hum, for which charset we need to "combine" characters? Do we need
> to combine for iso8859 1 or 15 charset for example? If yes can you give
> a concrete example.
>
> With bidi conversion are performed only for UTF-8, ISIRI-3342,
> ISO8859-6, ISO8859-9, CP1255 or CP1256. I suggest we do something
> like that for combining.

Actually there could be more encodings that need combining (TIS 620, the
Thai 8-bit encoding comes to mind).
But for ISO 8859-1, 8859-2 etc., I guess you're right and we can skip it.
I'll investigate this further.


//Marcus
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