Nov. 4, 2011
8:24 p.m.
Guy Harris wrote:
If not all strings in a time zone data file are required to be ASCII, then we should perhaps specify that they're UTF-8.
They are in fact all ASCII, and we have a maintenance policy that the abbreviations should always be only ASCII (see the "Time zone abbreviations" section in Theory). This is indeed an omission from tzfile(5). I think we should document that they are strictly printable ASCII. We have no need to accommodate free text, and so can get away without incurring the complications of Unicode. -zefram