On Jun 08, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FFS! When will people learn to not mess with other cultures they know > > nothing about? > > Feel free to advocate a different default charset for *your* locale, but > > do not pretend to know what's better for other locales. > As we have hundreds of broken packages assuming e.g. that the filenames > on disk are encoded in the current locale's character set, the only way > to make them interact properly with other applications is to set a > UTF8-locale. Wrong. The problem is packages which need to interact with text files, mail and usenet messages generated by broken software, and for which assuming UTF-8 would be totally wrong. Again, do not mess with cultures you do not understand.
-- ciao, Marco
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