On 12 August 2013 01:51, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: > On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 02:49:57PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > I propose the following sub-goals: > > 1. all programs should, in their default configuration, accept UTF-8 input > and pass it through uncorrupted. Having to manually specify encoding > is acceptable only in a programmatic interface, GUI/std{in,out,err}/ > command line/plain files should work with nothing but LC_CTYPE. > > 2. all GUI/curses/etc programs should be able to display UTF-8 output where > appropriate > > 3. all file names must be valid UTF-8 > > 4. all text files should be encoded in UTF-8 >
What about locales though? * C.utf8 locale should be always available * C.utf8 locale should be the default/fallback locale * utf8 locale variants should be default / available / preferred (where appropriate) (this is rough idea, adjust above as appropriate & feasible at this point in time) Regards, Dmitrijs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/canbhluhz9rezyipz1ze5zrptb5zccrspmdf9aoaygqyjvk1...@mail.gmail.com