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UNIX land is even worse in international languages support.

As in, there isn't even something on POSIX at the level other operaring systems support for localisation.

Yes there is some locale stuff, however not enough for all stuff, hence why every modern programming language happens to have this as part of their standard library.




When the notion of what a "string" is differs so much from language to language, i18n is never going to be an effective part of POSIX.


Is there a platform where you can't use ICU?




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