May 30, 2007
10:23 p.m.
<<On Wed, 30 May 2007 17:55:09 -0400, Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com> said:
"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.
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.
Ultimately, that is the problem that zone.tab is intended to solve: provide an appropriately localized description of each timezone so that a user doesn't have to know which city name was chosen by the tz database maintainers, or which spelling was used. -GAWollman