i18n

[ceplm at seznam.cz (Matej Cepl)]

Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I was talking about the underlying programming
> language that most Unix and Linux commands and utilities are written with
> (c and C++ specifically). Where newer languages, such as Java took I18N
> and Unicode into consideration when the language was designed.

a) how much it matters that C when it was originated was US-ASCII only, when
everybody use some Unicode-aware library like Qt (or whatever is used
elsewhere)?
b) which operating system you use, which is written in Java or any language
other than C/Objective-C/C++?

Matej

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