UCS data encoding in localedata

[Roumen Petrov]

Petr Baudis wrote:
>    Hi!
>
>    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.
locale -k CATEGORY_LIST make them more readable.

>    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?

Switch of locale data to UTF-* could be fine, but this will not resolve 
issue with function nl_langinfo.


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

Roumen