On 30-May-01, 22:25 (CDT), Cesar Eduardo Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 01:11:58PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:11:20PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: > > > I think Debian should start to move into using UTF-8 by default > > > everywhere. > > > > What, exactly, does this involve? > > - Making sure everything works with UTF-8 charset
Does this mean, for example, that cron and crontab would have to be recoded to support wide or multibyte characters? If so, I object to making this a requirement. That's an unreasonable burden to put on a maintainer, and cron is basically unmaintained upstream. (Hell, cron isn't even ISO C!). I suspect there are several core packages that in more-or-less the same boat: widely used legacy packages that haven't changed much in several years, and are so full of assumptions about the text being single-byte that they'd be easier to recode from scratch. I also wonder about the performance impact, and the size impact (although I understand that UTF-8 uses single byte for ascii equivalent, so that shouldn't be much, right?) Now, I agree that encouraging such behaviour might be a good idea (I don't know enough about various encoding to argue one over the other...) Steve -- Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
