locale encodings

[Keld Simonsen]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:37:53AM -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 11/11/2013 08:22 PM, Keld Simonsen wrote:
> > Well, the encoding of the source coode of all locales should be 7-bit ascii, for
> > maximum portability. Then the target encoding should be recorded via the 
> > % charset specification, which gives a list of possible charsets, comma separated.
> > UTF-8 should always be included there, but other encodings should also be available.
> 
> So one of the points that we've been trying to gather consensus on is:
> Is it really important to have 7-bit ASCII? Why not use UTF-8 for the
> the locale source? It's readily readable by all editors and allows
> language specific comments in teh source files for maximum maintenance.

I think to have UTF-8 is a bad idea, eg for embedded systems, and for systems that is
not maintained in UTF-8. It also can give trouble when communicating the source.

Best regards
keld