Hi, The arguments against utf-8 are ridiculous in this buglog. for example the claim that utf-8 on mail "causes problems for some rare configurations":
looking at a random non-debian mailing list: > grep charset qemu|grep -ci us-ascii 2733 > grep charset qemu|grep -ci ISO-8859-1 4098 > grep charset qemu|grep -ci utf-8 4471 Well, welcome to 2009 mr rare configuration, there is a big percentage of messages you can't read. Particularry you will have problems reading any mails from thunderbird and gmail users, it seems. Furthermore defaults must be engineered for newbies. Newbies don't have emotional attachment to legacy charsets (or even know what a charset is). They just want to things to work, and if everything were utf-8, things would work better. A practical example would be a newbie doing a copy-paste from a thunderbird "raw" message view to another application. Us old farts OTOH know perfectly well howto change back sending legacy charsets if we feel like that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
