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Re: locale encodings


On 11/11/2013 08:22 PM, Keld Simonsen wrote:
> Well, the encoding of the source coode of all locales should be 7-bit ascii, for
> maximum portability. Then the target encoding should be recorded via the 
> % charset specification, which gives a list of possible charsets, comma separated.
> UTF-8 should always be included there, but other encodings should also be available.

So one of the points that we've been trying to gather consensus on is:
Is it really important to have 7-bit ASCII? Why not use UTF-8 for the
the locale source? It's readily readable by all editors and allows
language specific comments in teh source files for maximum maintenance.

Cheers,
Carlos.


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