Subj : Re: SpiderMonkey: JS_InitStandardClasses allways fails
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Georg_Maa=DF?= <georg@vnett.de>
Date : Thu May 15 2003 08:21 am

Brendan Eich wrote:
> What character set encoding does "most system stuff" expect to be in a 
> char array passed via a char * formal parameter?  ASCII?  ISO-Latin-1?  
> A multi-byte encoding?

The encoding defined by the C locale which is the only locale with known 
name which is guaranteed to be allways present. No other locale is used, 
because neither their names are known, because there is no naming 
standard nor their presence is guaranteed. Trying to uses them requires 
a dialog to present them and select one. But HTTP is not a "dialog 
protocol" but a "hit me to make my cry protocol". On a server 
application that handles HTTP request, this would require configuring 
the locales by the administrator. This is only useful is the 
administrator of the server side application is root, because root 
manages the locales.

I don't want my application to depend on users being root.

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