UCS data encoding in localedata

[Carlos O'Donell]

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> wrote:
>  Does anyone know the technical reason for using the explicit <U0000>
> UCS encoding in localedata instead of some sane approach like UTF8
> encoded data? I can think of only historical reasons due to the lack
> of support in tools (OS, editors, VCS, ...) in the past, however I
> believe that by now, using UTF8 should be fairly safe.

Yes, you are probably correct.

The only other problem I can think of is that you'd be adding a
circular dependency between a tool that uses this data and at the same
time edits the data.

>  For me, even with the show-ucs-data tool, deadling with localedata
> files is quite onerous.  Can anyone share any other tricks they use
> when dealing with localedata?  Would there be any resistance to moving
> to UTF8?

I'm not opposed to it. I want to make editing these files as easy as
possible for you :-)

>  P.S.: It is not like I would start working on this tomorrow. However,
> I have wondered about this long enough to ask. :-)