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. > > Oh no, there are plenty of parts in it that I wish would die :-)
Wishing it to die is different from finding a lot of defects that you want to fix, isn't it? Sure, there are a lot of things that can be done better. For quite a lot of them (not all of them) ICU offers solutions. < list of things to fix ..... snipped> > > Everybody should switch to UTF-8 on Unix > > Yes. UTF-8 and NFD, I would say. As much as I like NFD (well, I'd like it even better if Korean NFD hadn't been made permanenlty broken between Unicode 2.x and 3.0), I don't think people will ever agree on NFD part. Jungshik
