Re: unicode (was Re: Minor error message change)

[Pavel Roskin <proski@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 30 May 2003, John E. Davis wrote:

> >TERM is for terminal capabilities.  Locale is for user preferences.
> >Preferences can be different for different users.  I personally prefer
> >POSIX locale, but I still want to be able to use terminals with UTF-8
> >support.
> 
> Have you looked at
> 
>   http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#activate
> 
> ?  I do not know of anything more detailed than this when it comes to
> practical standards concerning UTF-8 on a Unix system.  In particular,
> this document describes how UTF-8 mode should be activated.

I haven't seen this site before.  Thank you for the link.  It looks like
it's too late to change standards.  OK, let's stick with whatever we have.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin