i18n

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Friday 17 March 2006 10:24 am, Ed Hill wrote:

> So quit spreading nonsense, Jerry.  If you don't have a clue about the
> topic (which is clearly the case here), then keep your wildly untrue FUD
> to yourself.
>
> Ed
>
> ps - If I'd hired you to work on i18n project and you displayed such
>      a shocking level of ignorance, I'd have terminated you on the
>      spot.
Ed,
You do not have to relate to a personal attack. What I said was true. Unix 
and Linux are and were based on the C language that has 8 bits as its 
standard character. 
I18n was added to C in about 1988 with the addition of locales. And, as I 
said, most commercial Unix systems were internationalized back in the late 
1980s and early 1990s. 
UTF-8 is essentially the ASCII character set that was incorporated into 
Unicode. And, what I said was true. 
Note that most utilities in the C library do use the local, and it is the 
local that is used to implement the encodings.
-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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