Sujet : Re: iconv "versions"
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 16. Mar 2024, 23:56:18
Autres entêtes
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On Sat, 16 Mar 2024 08:54:00 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects
royalties:
On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 06:43:38 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
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If you want to see a real morass, just look at the gettext-related
code in GNU's glibc.
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I’m guessing, much of that would be remaining backward compatibility
with legacy pre-Unicode national character sets.
Time to move forward?
Maybe at some point those legacy encodings should be moved out of glibc
proper, into special-purpose utilities for dealing with historical
documents. But as long as we want to preserve records of our past, there
will likely always be a need for them somewhere.
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