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Locales in AIX

Currently we have the following locales installed on two of our servers
SERVER-1
$ locale -a
C
POSIX
en_US
en_US.8859-15
en_US.ISO8859-1
EN_US
EN_US.UTF-8
ZH_CN
ZH_CN.UTF-8
HI_IN
HI_IN.UTF-8
ko_KR
ko_KR.IBM-eucKR
zh_TW
zh_TW.IBM-eucTW

SERVER-2
C
POSIX
en_US
en_US.8859-15
en_US.ISO8859-1


Since on server-2, I did not have UTF-8 locales installed, I was under the impression that on this server I'll not be able to run iconv to convert files from ISO8859 to UTF-8. But on both the servers I was able to convert the files from ISO8859-1 to UTF-8 using "iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t UTF-8 filename".
Technically both the servers should be in sync but somehow they are not. What is the downside of not having UTF-8 locales installed on SERVER-2? Appreciate any info on this.

Thanks,
voorkey
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MKCOMPOSECACHE(1)                                             General Commands Manual                                            MKCOMPOSECACHE(1)

NAME
mkcomposecache - create a cache file for a compose file explicitely SYNOPSIS
mkcomposecache locale compose-file cache-dir [ internal-name ] DESCRIPTION
mkcomposecache creates a cache file for the specified compose-file used in the given locale and saves it in cache-dir. If internal-name has been spezified, it is used as the name of the compose table for computing the hash values and internal validation. This is necessary if global compose cache files shall be created while using DESTDIR during X11 installation. Notes: - compose cache files are created by libX11, thus an Xserver has to be running and DISPLAY has to be set correctly for creating cache files. - libX11 will not write compose cache files if run as root or with different real and effective uids. - libX11 will not create compose cache files in directories writable for other users. DIAGNOSTICS
mkcomposecache returns with exit status 1 on general errors (no Xserver, invoked as root, etc.) and 2 on unsupported locales. An exit status of 0 does not imply that a cache file is actually written, though. This very much depends on the used libX11 and its safety regulations. EXAMPLES
mkcomposecache en_US.UTF-8 /var/tmp/buildroot/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose /var/tmp/buildroot/var/X11R6/compose_cache /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose FILES
/var/X11R6/compose_cache Location of global compose cache. AUTHOR
mkcomposecache was written by Matthias Hopf <mhopf@suse.de>. X Version 11 mkcomposecache 1.0 MKCOMPOSECACHE(1)