i18n

[dhml at comcast.net (David Hummel)]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 12:35:40PM -0500, Bill Horne wrote:
> 
> Ed Hill wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 08:55 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > 
> >>The problem with Unix/Linux is that it is still based on 8-bit
> >>characters,
> >
> >The above, as written, is simply not true.
> 
> I didn't see anything to disagree with in Jerry's posting, 

Jerry's statement above is misleading.  It's not really a problem, since
the user interacts not with the kernel, but with applications.  glibc
has had support for utf-8 and multi-byte locales for years now (since
2.2 I believe).