-----Original Message----- From: Paul Koning [mailto:pkoning@equallogic.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 2:55 PM To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Cc: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: RE: zone.tab corrections
"Paul" == Paul Schauble <Paul.Schauble@ticketmaster.com> writes:
Paul> You could bite the bullet (US idion) and redefine the zone Paul> tables to be UTF-8. Paul> I'm half kidding (I have Unicode very much on the brain right Paul> now). But I'm sure that will happen sooner or later. Yes, that would be good in some ways. Not so good in other ways. It would be a hassle for travelers who are not sufficiently fluent in the local language to read the local place names in their specific script. It also doesn't help the multiple official languages case, though you could cure that by putting multiple entries, one per language. Paul ---------------------------------- Yes, exactly. Have one synonym for each local name. Just require that the English choice always exists. ++PLS