Re: Why no non-latin TODIGIT mappings in UTF-8.src ?
Andrey Chernov <[email protected]>
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On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 08:40:28PM +0200, Wolfgang Zenker wrote: > > So, can anyone clue me in why this has been handled this way? It appears > to me that the possibilities of localization are quite limited as soon > as languages in non-latin scripts come into play. Are these problems > usually handled in individual applications then? IMHO this is for for historic practice converting between digit/char using - '0' and + '0' Monotonic sequence requirement is another confirmation. BTW, this originally comes from ISO C standard, POSIX only inherits it. Possibilities of localization are limited in a lot ways besides that one. -- http://ache.pp.ru/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-i18n To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"