On Jun 01, Cesar Eduardo Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ask the IETF. They seem to like UTF8 a lot. Because it's ASCII-compatible. This is not relevant.
>Ask Linus too. The UTF8 support is in the kernel since, what, 2.0.x? Because it's ASCII-compatibile. This is not relevant. UTF-8 maybe be useful for things like debconf templates as long as it's able to recode on the fly to the $LC_CTYPE encoding, but don't you dare fucking with the locales for languages and countries you don't know about. Making sure applications can deal with UTF-8 is ok, things like recoding the documentation are not. Most people (with the possible exception of part of the CJK community) do not want to use unicode yet, deal with it. -- ciao, Marco
