The C locale

[IWAMURO Motonori]

Hi.

> the default ANSI and OEM codepage on Japanese Windows systems is
> 932/SJIS, right?

Yes.

> LANG="C" -> UTF-8
(snip)
> LANG="ja_JP.SJIS" -> SJIS

It's good.

> LANG="ja" -> EUCJP
> LANG="ja_JP" -> EUCJP

Hmmm, It is a difficult problem.

I think selecting UTF-8 is good because eucJP is legacy.

But, for interoperability with other UNIX-like system(*), I don't
think selecting UTF-8 is good.

* Solaris: ja, ja_JP -> eucJP
* Linux (Debian): ja -> Unknown, ja_JP -> eucJP

I need to think more...

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