On ÎÏÎ 17 ÎÏÎ 2004 23:21, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Konstantinos Margaritis] > > > Why don't we just use UTF-8? I've been using for Greek for more > > than a year and it's been much easier (and Greek is a difficult > > case anyway). And it solves all these silly problems of @euro and > > weird encodings. Not to mention it's more universal. > > Nah, don't think so, yet.
Ok, though it will have to be done eventually... > There has been lots of UTF-8 glibc fixes the last year, and I > suspect more are to come as RedHat and others keep finding bugs. > And I know from experience that using UTF-8 all over give > compatibility problems. Did you ever try to log into a Solaris box > from a RedHat 9 box using UTF-8? I did. All 8bit chars were > messed up. True, my only experience reg UTF-8 was with other Linux boxes and I could easily enable UTF-8 support in them. I don't know if it is even possible to have UTF-8 support in other *ix systems. On the other hand, it you use a ISO-8859-1 enc and login to a system which uses say, a Russian encoding (KOI8-R, which I believe is 8-bit) all high-ASCII characters would look weird... It's not really my call anyway :-) Konstantinos
