Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Redhat 8.0 and Bluecurve

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@fr...>]

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 18:58:16 -0700 (PDT)
Baiju M <mal...@ya...> wrote:

> 
> --- Rajkumar S <s_...@my...> wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Guntupalli Karunakar wrote:
> > 
> > > From localization ( translation ) perspectives not change,
> > but we
> > 
> > I heard from some where (slashdot discussion?) that the
> > default charset is
> > now utf-8 instead of the iso8859-*. Is it true?
> 
> Yes, the native encoding for both KDE and GNOMe is UTF-8.
> 
 after some time (donno when ?) for Linux console too.

> BTW, does anyone know why iso8859-12 never become devanagari
> 8-bit encoding encoding?
> 
 It was reserverd for ISCII 
 ISO has been waiting for indian standards bodies for it. Also maybe
ISCII doesnt fit ISO requirements, it would be better to have
different codepages for each language, iso8859-12 for dev,
iso8859-16,17 so on for other languages. Having them seperate will
help each language have its own ordering, character equivalence for a
code point need not be maintained. Sort order based on code point is
easier.
 anyway its little too late for 8 bit standards, but maybe having them
defined would do no harm.

Regards,
Karunakar