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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: islands
- Message-ID: <16323@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 19:19:56 GMT
- References: <C0MKEu.5or@poel.juice.or.jp>
- Sender: news@auspex-gw.auspex.com
- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- >They currently use environment variables (e.g. "LANG") for "file
- >typing". This is how they can use the same "vi" binary in both Japan
- >and Germany.
-
- Actually, if they use the same "vi" binary in Japan, Germany, *and* the
- US, they don't do Japanese EUC, because the "vi" that comes with SunOS
- 4.1[.x] is derived from the SVR3.1 one, which only does 8-bit character
- sets. They may have a "vi" that does 16-bit character sets as part of
- Asian localization kits, and maybe the SVR4 "vi" that I assume comes
- with SunOS 5.x handles 16-bit character sets.
-
- The 4.1[.x] character-set handling stuff is set up to handle multiple
- types of character sets, not just EUC, and that may be the way they
- handle Unicode/UTF as well - depending on the setting of LANG, it'll do
- ISO 8859/1, or 8859/n, or Japanese EUC, or Unicode/UTF, or....
-
- They may also supply a program or programs to turn "plain text" files in
- those character sets into UTF files, and to do the same with directories
- (i.e., renaming files so that a file with a non-ASCII name in the
- character set in question gets a new name that's the same name in UTF,
- and possibly also fixing symbolic links).
-
- Or they may do something else.
-