[FWD] Re: [I18n] On the Xutf8* funtions and the future of UTF-8 locales

[Edward Lee <edward.@kimo.com>]

  轉信者注：
  1. Xutf* 等函式已 commit 進 CVS tree（XFree86 4.0.2）。但
     目前有人建議撤銷，還在吵，台灣也有人加入在吵（不是我，
     暫時還不夠格）。:)
  2. Markus Kuhn 先生提議 2002.01.01 全面進入 utf8 locale，
     捨棄其它 locale。
  3. Xutf* 等函式會和 XLC/XIM/XOM 衝突。

  理解如有錯誤請指正，我只是來打打小報告讓居士失眠一下而已。:D



----- Forwarded message from "T.SHIOZAKI" <tshiozak@bsdclub.org> -----

To: i18n@XFree86.Org
Cc: xorg_i18n@x.org, li18nux@li18nux.org, bsd-locale@hauN.org
Subject: Re: [I18n] On the Xutf8* funtions and the future of UTF-8 locales
From: "T.SHIOZAKI" <tshiozak@bsdclub.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 02:17:35 +0900


From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: [I18n] On the Xutf8* funtions and the future of UTF-8 locales
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 11:28:42 +0000
Message-ID: <E147bzn-0008Aj-00@wisbech.cl.cam.ac.uk>

>   2001-05-01    New X.Org sample release with 
>                   - full UTF-8 support,
>                   - wide-char = UCS-4 guarantee in all locales
>                   - comprehensive Unicode input methods
>                   - all fonts are Unicode encoded (with a few temporary
>                     recoding hacks for backwards compatibility)
> 
>   2002-01-01    Li18nux requires that no non-UTF-8 locales and fonts
>                 be installed by conforming distributions.

Impossible.

Such requirements must be unacceptable to the people in some countries.
In such countries, people wish the gentle transition to Unicode,
and disagree the extreme transition.  It seems for me that such gentle
transition has been doing seasonably, at least in Japan.
If X.Org and/or Li18nux should require the elimination of non-UTF-8 locale,
such requirements would be ignored simply and it would only spawn many
unconforming implementations to keep their backward compatibility.
I believe both X.Org and Li18nux do not take such decision.

Similarly, I think XFree86 should revoke the Xutf8* functions,
since these essentialy conflict with the XLC/XIM/XOM framework and
it makes essential incompatibility.
I think XLC/XIM/XOM framework is enough for handling Unicode under X,
and this can keep the backward compatibility perfectly.


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Warm regards,
Edward Lee（李果正）
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