On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 12:22:20AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > Is there any reason why UTF-8 seems to be the default in Debian nowadays? I > installed sid with d-i (current businesscard as of 2004-07-21) and noticed > that LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (a locale that was not even generated); this > confused aterm and probably other applications.
I would be curious to know how this got set in the absence of a generated locale. Do you know the particulars of his environment? Is he running one of the desktop envs (GNOME/KDE)? > A friend of mine installed sarge with d-i today (ie. current businesscard as > of 2004-07-22) and now his x-chat is suddenly spewing out UTF-8 on IRC. Are > we copying Red Hat's classic bugs here? :-) Sending UTF-8 text on IRC is not a bug. Sending anything *other* than UTF-8 should be considered a bug. :P -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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