Wrong Way ?

[Henning Glawe <glaweh physik fu-berlin de>]

Hi Folks,
could it be that the current way of i18n is not the right way to go ?
The unix-Locale-System causes a that big increase of work in
software-development..A few thesis to that point:
-use the locale ONLY to determine the language for messages
-use complete unicode i/o, i think the work behind that, like Input
methods, Keyboardmapping, which _should_ map to UNICODE and Text rendering
should be put into the XServer, so projects like PANGO should be
_there_...
Utopia: programs get UNICODE Text and display it this way, so there would
be no big problems in multilingual environments.
Any other way would be just another patch and _not_ a clean concept !

c u
henning