specific UTF-8 locales

saroj.yadav_at_gmail.com
Date: 03/22/05 

Date: 22 Mar 2005 11:51:50 -0800

As I understand it (correct me, if I am wrong) Unicode came into
picture so that a document containing multiple language characters can
be supported like somebody can write a document comparing Korean and
Chinese in French language.

Now, I am looking at all UNIX platforms and seems like all Unix (AIX,
HP, Solaris) platforms support Unicode by supporting language/region
specific UTF-8 locales like fr_FR.UTF-8, ja_JP.UTF-8, ko_KR.UTF-8 etc.

Now in order to use UTF-8 for Japanese, I have to set locale to
ja_JP.UTF-8. To use UTF-8 for Korean, I have to set locale to
ko_KR.UTF-8.

With this approach it's not possible to mix multiple language
characters. Doesn't this defeat the whole purpose of Unicode ?
Am I missing something ?

Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide.

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