Testiness.

[Rob Landley]

On Thursday 01 September 2005 13:06, Allan Clark wrote:
> >Everyone here is trying to spare a few bytes in each applet, so is it
> >worth trying to support anything but LC_ALL=C? For the full monty thing,
> >we already have the GNU stuff ...
>
> In an office of 350, I was recently one of six guys who could speak
> really good english (and the grammer of my emails might cause you to
> debate that)... would this decision simply increase my value here in
> Beijing?  :)

What "decision"?  This is something that hasn't been done yet, isn't a high 
priority for the existing developers, is a notorious source of bloat, etc.

X apps, such as your web browser, are internationalized.  And it is important 
that they be so.  Command line utilities like cp, gzip, mke2fs...  Not so 
much.  (And even if those command line utilities _are_ internationalized, 
it's through a completely separate mechanism than X uses.  Command line 
utilities don't even really have the concept of "font".  Our I/O is through a 
tty, or shell scripts and redirected stdin/stdout that's often files.)

I can see supporting the utf8 character set someday, mostly because doing so 
shouldn't take too much effort.

Rob