CH_DISPLAY and gettext

[Michael Adam]

Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> Am 23.06.2011 19:20, schrieb Jeremy Allison:
> > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 02:16:01AM +0900, TAKAHASHI Motonobu wrote:
> >>
> >> That's what I (and my friends) insisted several years ago:
> >>   http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2004-March/034638.html
> >>   http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2004-March/034742.html
> >>
> >> Internal charset should be fixed. UTF-8 is acceptable but UTF-16 may
> >> be better because UTF-16 is more suitable for string manipulation than
> >> UTF-8.
> > 
> > I disagree with that. UTF-16 is just as bad for string manipulation
> > as UTF-8, due to compose characters. UTF-16 isn't a fixed length
> > representation either.
> 
> And UTF-16 doesn't work as a native C String (char *).
> We should really try to just use UTF-8 internally.

I am really glad that there seems to be some support for my idea.
And also that it has been around for quite some time.
So I am feeling less freaky to bring it up (again) ;-)

I will think about more details...

Cheers - Michael

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