I don't see how introducing a new LC_* would help here. Whether
Limit the mess of CTYPE controlling Yet Another Feature.
it's LC_CTYPE or LC_FILENAME, the problem is still there.
to and from the codeset returned by 'nl_langinfo(CODESET)'.
Don't get me started how suckily and brokenly nl_langinfo() is supported
across platforms :-) Well, CODESET may be on the average better
supported.
May.
Directly inspecting LC_CTYPE or other environment variables is a BAD
idea
I can optimize that for ya: s/Directly inspecting/Using/ :-)
The same is true of 'unicode'. On Mac OS X, locale, native and unicode
would mean all the same (UTF-8). As for 'normalization', I have to
think
more about it. And so on...... I've been just thinking aloud so that
you have to bear with some incoherency.
I think incoherency is the key word in this area.
--
Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi(_at_)iki(_dot_)fi> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this
special
biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen
