EVALUATION
Committing to mustang
###@###.### 2003-09-17
Investigating the bug, ie. to make the java installer and other
sub-components install into a directory which contains multi-byte/wide
characters AND if the default locale is english (for example).
The fix is very complicated and this configuration cannot be supported.
There are several sub-components (zipper, unpack, unzip) and the vm,
and other utilities which needs to be unicodified.
This is a very large effort for very little gain, ie. there is no reason why anyone should use multi-byte characters in the path-name when the locale is set to english or something else.
For the record: To clarify this issue needs to be addressed for a future
release as an RFE when the VM can work when User_Locale != System_Locale,
AND we decide to drop the Win98, WinME systems. Until then its way too
complex to fix the installer subcomponents, especially the zipper and unzip,
and possibly Regutils.
###@###.### 2004-08-03
By popular demand (namely the I18N team) I am re-opening this bug,
the problem here is that its very cumbersome to deal with Win98 and WinME.
Its entirely possible that these platforms may not be supported for
mustang, and if the I18N team will fix the vm issues then its worthwhile
to fix this bug.
###@###.### 2004-08-04
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