Is it OK to write ASCII strings directly into locale source files?

[Mike FABIAN]

Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:

> My only argument is that when you are forced to use <Uxxx> encoding it
> is empirically less likely you'll make a mistake. Like reading a sentence
> backwards to catch errors since it prevents your brain from filling in
> the missing information.

But there are also many mistakes because somebody mistyped code points.
Several weird typos in things like month names look as if somebody
mistyped code points.

-- 
Mike FABIAN <mfabian@redhat.com>