David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > David> Users should be able to expect that you can send a file > > David> from one Linux box to another in the same locale without > > David> having to recode it. > > > > They should, but they can't. > > Why not? The main exception is going to be the Euroizing nations, which > are split between ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-15. Everyone else has more or > less one charset standard.
Plus UTF-8, so most nations have more than one standard encoding, and the West European Euro nations have three. Edmund
