On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 10:22, John Goerzen wrote: > Then your solution is broken. Seriously, this would be a huge problem > for many people.
But the current situation is *already* broken! For example, for a Chinese person, an ISO-8859-1 system simply cannot encode, nor display, their language. I am aware that for people entrenched in legacy charsets like ISO-8859-1, the transition may introduce incompatibilities. But that's the price we pay to eventually make everything work for everyone. > I am vehemently opposed to any proposal that renders Debian > substantially unusable on existing ASCII/latin1 terminals. I think it > is great to use Unicode internally, but we clearly are not pursuing > the right path if we introduce such breakage. It is the only path to the future. Note that in my proposal, I do suggest that programs try to re-encode from UTF-8 back to the user's locale charset.
