Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc
To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Jim Wise <jwise@draga.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 01/31/2001 04:54:49
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On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:

>/usr/lib/runemodule/libBIG5.a
>/usr/lib/runemodule/libEUC.a
>/usr/lib/runemodule/libEUCTW.a
>/usr/lib/runemodule/libISO2022.a
>/usr/lib/runemodule/libMSKanji.a
>/usr/lib/runemodule/libUTF2.a
>/usr/lib/runemodule/libUTF8.a
>
>	here are items Asian people wants:
>
>	- Japanese users will need ISO2022, MSKanji, and EUC.
>	  some of them may probably want UTF8 too.
>	- Korean users will want EUC.  some of them probably want UTF8 and
>	  ISO2022 too.
>	- Hongkong users will want BIG5.  not sure about UTF8.
>	- Taiwanese users will want EUCTW and BIG5?.  not sure about UTF8.
>
>	most of european people will be happy with singlebyte locales.
>
>	they won't eat too much diskspace, so I'd say put all modules into
>	one package.

OK, that works.  Might it be worth keeping this as two packages, one for
the two UTF modules, and one for the other encodings, on the assumption
that as more and more tools are UTF-aware (java, tcl, perl, most XML
tools, etc), there may be more demand for these?  Or does that not make
sense...

- -- 
				Jim Wise
				jwise@draga.com
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