Re: [tlug] Nomiki in June 13th timeframe?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <steve@??>]

Craig Oda writes:

 > It was a great time when a bunch of Linux hobbyists could cooperate
 > and make some small contributions to the knowledge pool.

Don't forget those mostly useless POSIX locales and LC_* environment
variables!

 > Unicode, UTF-16, was just a baby and shift-jis was the godzilla of
 > the time, a big monster rambling through Tokyo and destroying
 > things.  ;-).

Oh, you don't know the half of it, with most of the Japanese hackers
stuffing raw Shuft-JIS into email headers wreaking violence on every
comformant MUA in the world, not to mention Microshaft beta versions
of Outhouse spewing signatureless UTF-16 XML content (with ASCII
tags!)

 > There was no shelter in EUC on Linux as the world
 > was getting connected, one TCP/IP packet at time. But, I don't
 > remember JIS being a safe haven either.  And, wasn't there a major
 > and disruptive glibc change right at that time?

If I remember correctly, that was when all the distros moved from HJ
Liu's libc5 to glibc, glibc *was* the "major and disruptive change"! :-)

 > Thank you for all your work.

Maybe I can track down Hiroo Yamagata, I think Rob Bickel is in the
US.

 > It's a great memory for me.

It was a lot of fun for everybody, except for poor Hiroo trying to
turn hacker jargon into presentable nihongo. :-)

Steve


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