Thanks for your info. What I really trying to do is: *Using ICU, which uses UTF-16, to handle all strings for cross platform localization.
*since UTF-8 is the default locale for Red Hat Linux, so I need to convert the strings from UTF-16 to UTF-8. But UTF-8 is not the default locale for CJK. So, on CJK, I need to set UTF-8 as the default locale, the converted UFT-8 can still work with CJK. *Or there may be other better ways to do this? If it is possible to find out the current default locale encoding (such as UTF-16, UTF-8, multi-byte and etc.) at run time for an App, then according the current locale, do the correct conversions? ICU provides rich conversion utilities. This way, I can guaranty that my App will work properly and will not screw up other Apps on the same system. Thanks, Yiying -----Original Message----- From: Edward H Trager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 8:25 AM To: Shao, Yiying Subject: RE: unicode on Linux Hi Yiying, On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Shao, Yiying wrote: > >>On Red Hat Linux, if UTF-8 is not made as the default encoding for > >>Chnese/Japanese/Korean, what it is using for those double byte languages? > > >The old multi-byte character sets. > > for CJK, can UTF-8 to be set to the local for an App programatically without > affecting other apps? > Yes, you can start any app with a customized environment, i.e.: prompt%> LANG=zh-CN.UTF-8 yourApp & Is this what you are asking? > > > >>Does later Red Had Linux makes the UTF-8 the default encoding for them? > > >AFAIK only if you manually set it to a UTF-8 locale, e.g. > >LANG=zh-CN.UTF-8. Notice, though, that some older software will not be > >aware of this change, so many characters will not be displayed >properly. > > > >
