Collation implementation

[Benjamin Kosnik]

> > Get real.  You never ever want to base everything else on a C++
> > library.  This is a horrendous stupidity.  C++ brings not only an
> > unstable API, it also introduces a huge amount of overhead (code,
> > data, initialization).
> 
> Dietmar is not stupid, never mind horrendously stupid.

Agreed. The response to this was unfortunate. Dietmar's input is always 
welcome.

> Certainly it would be best if both C and C++ libraries used the same 
> data files underneath, whatever code is used to apply them.  It may be 
> that the IBM package would be preferable as the locale implementation 
> underlying both C and C++ libraries.

I'm assuming this issue is orthogonal to the iconv issues that ulrich, 
you, and I have been discussing on and off for weeks?


-benjamin