Re: wide characters and i18n

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 07:38:42PM -0700, Erik Fair wrote:
> I commend this well written paper to your attention:
> 
> http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/utf.html

...which is also simplistic in the assumption and problems faced. If you
want to know about the issues with I18N and Unicode in specific, don't
ask Americans. Don't ask Europeans either, they only have slightly more
exposure to the problems.

Itojun mentioned some of the issues in
ftp://ftp.itojun.org/pub/paper/itojun-freenix2001-presen.ps.gz

Joerg