- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:32:12 -0500
- To: "Addison Phillips [wM]" <aphillips@webmethods.com>, Paul Deuter <PaulD@plumtree.com>
- Cc: Mark Davis <mark.davis@jtcsv.com>, public-i18n-ws@w3.org, debasish@us.ibm.com
At 09:46 03/01/31 -0800, Addison Phillips [wM] wrote: >Okay, so my Java program instantiates the locale "zh-CN"... was anyone >hurt by this? The charset isn't actually a locale member in Java and has >no meaning in Java. It might be used to affect a byte-oriented interaction >(probably in a very negative way). > >What about a POSIX system? It's running "zh-CN.GBK@pinyin". Does it hurt >to omit some of that information when invoking remote Web services? What >happens if that invoked Web service is (a wrapper around) another POSIX >program? Does the loss of information affect the outcome? > >I'm not sure, but it might if the collation is "binary" and the charset is >changed from GBK to UTF-8. Hello Addison, Would it be possible for you to describe some usage scenarios where the answer to your questions 'does it hurt?' is 'yes'? I think if we have concrete usage scenarios, that will help move our document forward and focus the discussion. Regards, Martin.
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