<div dir="ltr">Hi Stephen,<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-01-09 19:42 GMT+01:00 Stephen J. Turnbull <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:turnbull.stephen.fw@u.tsukuba.ac.jp" target="_blank">turnbull.stephen.fw@u.tsukuba.ac.jp</a>></span>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Private sector may be up to date, but academic sector<br>
(and from the state of <a href="http://e-stat.go.jp" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">e-stat.go.jp</a>, government in general, I suspect)<br>
is stuck in the Jomon era.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I went to that page, checked the HTML and found:</div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><br></div><div><br></div><div>Admittedly, the page is in HTML 4.01, but then the Jomon era predates</div><div>HTML5 by about 16,000 years, so I'll cut them some slack.</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, I am quite willing to believe that the situation is as dire as you</div><div>describe on Windows.</div><div>However, on OS X, Apple enforces UTF-8.</div><div>And the Linux vendors are moving in that direction too.</div><div><br></div><div>And the proposal under discussion is specifically about Linux</div><div><br></div><div>So, again I am wondering if there are many people who end</div><div>up with a *Linux* system which has a non-UTF-8 locale.</div><div>For example, if you use the Ubuntu graphical installer,</div><div>it asks for your language and then gives you the UTF-8 locale</div><div>which comes with that. You have to really dive into</div><div>the non-graphical configuration to get yourself</div><div>a non-UTF8 locale.</div><div><br></div><div>Stephan</div></div></div></div>