On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 07:28:24PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 08:51:32PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 04:15:10PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: ... > > > Are there bug reports for these individual issues that you mention? > > > Locale > > > encoding is a touchy political issue as well as involving a certain > > > coordinated transition in the case of shared filesystems, so if we're > > > going > > > to recommend that users switch to UTF-8 as part of the upgrade to squeeze, > > > I'd like us to be able to point somewhere for more information about the > > > problems they'll run into if they don't. > > > There may well be reasons for not switching to UTF-8 -- Japanese files > > containing lots of hiragana will all get significantly larger. > > Those users will really need ocnvincing.
As Japanese, I want UTF-8. File size difference in real life Japanese text is insignificant issue than the conflicts we face when we have to deal with mixed data some in Latin-1 and some in EUC-JP. Touchy issue is in Han-unification which we can ignore like other OSs (Windows, Mac, ...). > Given that text files no longer account for even a significant minority of > disk usage on a typical system, and most other file types have built-in > encoding negotiation of some sort, I don't think that's still a credible > argument not to switch. Actually, this "encoding negotiation" is headache which we fight between Latin-1 vs. EUC-JP. Use of UTF-8 gives all of us peace of mind. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
