[illumos-Developer] BSD iconv (was Closed-bin accords of the OpenSolaris conference... )

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 16:49 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "Garrett D'Amore" <garrett at damore.org> wrote:
> 
> > I'm not too worried about encoding names, actually.  The various
> > short-hand aliases for full locale names do not need to be supported.
> > Full locale names are e.g. en_US.UTF-8.
> 
> Then you don't seem to know that missing encoding names may cause mail from
> other systems to become unreadable.

If the shorthand names are specified by RFCs or in wide use, then yes,
they need to be supported.  I'm not worried about supporting every
possible alias though.

	- Garrett (who doesn't understand why we don't all just use UTF-8)