[fedora-ja-list] [Bug 136290] Add Japanese SJIS locale

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------- Additional Comments From drepper ＠ redhat.com  2004-10-19 11:03 -------
> Sounds like a very dictator logic by European and American
> as always happened on codeset issues.

This is an issue of maintenance for the distribution.  Using a
non-ASCII clean locale means that various programs will just cease to
work.  How will pay all the wasted hour of our developers who get
reports a program doesn't work and it turns out it is the fault of
this locale?

Arguing about other Unixes having support is irrelevant.  There is no
Unix in existence even today which has internationalization as
complete as Linux.  They simply don't have these programs.  And in
case of, say, Solaris there is an additional problem that they have a
non-fixed wchar_t representation (in old code, they switch for new
code as well) which makes it all but impossible to write correct
i18n'ed software.

I would appreciate if you don't use words like the above anymore since
we actually know what the implications are since we actually wrote the
code.



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