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Re: how to test the new glibc-2.2's UTF-8 locales

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Subject: Re: how to test the new glibc-2.2's UTF-8 locales
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 04 May 2000 11:57:30 -0700
In-reply-to: Bruno Haible's message of "Thu, 4 May 2000 20:27:26 +0200 (MET DST)"
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Bruno Haible <haible@xxxxxxx> writes:

>   - The wide character properties (wcwidth, iswupper, etc.) are very
>     different from the tables of the Unicode consortium.

This is an issue of the locale data files since the information is
coming from these files.

>   - There is no UTF-7 support in iconv.

I currently don't think that promoting this ill-designed encoding is
useful.  Let it die.  Don't tell anybody that it ever existed.

> - Sources:
>   - glibc CVS sources, instructions are at http://sourceware.cygnus.com/glibc/
>     (remember to use "cvs -z 9" to save network bandwidth)

Please use -z3.  The actual differences in the amount of data are
minimal but you help the server.

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