[fedora-ja-list] [Bug 136290] Add Japanese SJIS locale

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------- Additional Comments From gotom ＠ debian.or.jp  2004-10-21 14:40 -------
I couldn't understand why you guys insist to support ja_JP.SJIS locale.
I guess you want to use SJIS for text convertion (use iconv, nkf),
or use SJIS on filesystem (use mount option).  But why do you want
to use ja_JP.SJIS _environment_?

ja_JP.SJIS locale is broken for unix environment.
Most Japanese locale developers do not consider about ja_JP.SJIS locale
for daily processing because SJIS is not suitable for unix environment.
We have tested for ja_JP.ujis, ja_JP.eucJP, ja_JP.EUC-JP, and 
ja_JP.UTF-8.  However ja_JP.SJIS (and ja_JP.ISO-2022-JP variants) are
out of scope.

Only the thing I heard about using ja_JP.SJIS is to handle SJIS on
xmms.  But I think it's just local hack for that user, and I doubt it's
usable for everyone (and read comments; it's not).

I think it's useful that you check whether ja_JP.SJIS is usable or not,
and which part violates POSIX behavior before complaining, because
no one has tested and collected it, IIRC.



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