On Thu, 25 Dec 2003, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > What I wish is that the whole current locale system would curl up and > die.
As you'd agree, it's only 'encoding' part that has to die. Everybody should switch to UTF-8 on Unix and end-users should never worry about 'encoding'. In an ideal world, 'encoding' would never be a part of 'locale'. We're getting there although very slowly. > > nl_langinfo(CODESET) is rather well supported where it's > > available (i.e. SUS-compliant modern Unix platforms). > > That's not good enough for Perl. Perl must also deal with > non-SUS-compliant older UNIX or -like platforms. Sure, I'm well aware of that. Otherwise, I'd not have gone on to mention gnulib and such. Jungshik
