CH_DISPLAY and gettext

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Thu Jun 23 11:20:35 MDT 2011


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.

Jeremy.


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