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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 20:55:37 +0100
From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>
To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>
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On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 05:04:36AM -0700, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote:
>  * From: Nik Clayton <nclayton@lehman.com>
> 
>  * I accept that the Japanese team have decided that EUC is to be their 
>  * default encoding, and I have no problem with that.  However, I don't want
>  * to have to *force* this encoding on every Japanese FreeBSD user.  Perhaps
>  * some of them already have a mass of documentation in SJIS format, and 
>  * they would prefer to stick with SJIS format if at all possible -- or they
>  * have a commercial application that can only handle SJIS format.
> 
> When did we ever say we are going to force eucJP encoding to every
> Japanese FreeBSD user?!?

Well, currently the docs are in eucJP, right?  That's what the user gets
when they do "make install" in doc/ja.  There's no framework to let them
pick a different encoding.

Fortunately, putting in that sort of framework becomes trivial with this
scheme, as it's just another <lang> <territory> <encoding> triple.

> We have no problem with having a framework to let people choose.
> We're just saying that we would like to choose a default that makes
> sense to most Japanese systems and have people with special
> requirements (such as the ones you mentioned above) change it by
> themselves.

OK.

N
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 non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs
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