Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> wrote:
> > IMHO it would be very "unwise". Solaris would simply "disappear" from
> > markets where non-UTF-8 multibyte characters are either required by law
> > or still have widespread coporate use (e.g. "zh_CN.GB18030", "ja_JP.PCK"
> > and some others fall into this category (and Sun has invested a lot to
> > get these locales implemented&&certified)).
>
> That's what I meant by "not...practical" :)
>
> Even the European non-Unicode locales could not easily be removed, even
> though the same political problems are not present there, simply because
> of the need to support lots of existing content in ISO-8859-*.
The idea from 1992 to relace any locales by UNICODE based locales was a mistake
anyway. You cannot e.g. replace the ISO-8859-1 coding on Audio CDs used for
CD-Text by another coding.
J?rg
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