On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 08:57:06PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: JR>> the only thing that will change is that if someone complains at JR>> people who use UTF-8 in changelogs, a new retort will be JR>> available, "THE POLICY MADE ME DO IT!!1!", or similar. CW> Why would someone complain?
I would complain. I am using KOI8-R terminal which can not display Latin-1 characters, and it seems backward to me to mandate or even allow _usage_ of UTF-8 ahead of getting it _supported_ across the system. I'd rather have 7-bit ASCII changelogs: why Latin-1 users are privileged to use native spelling of their names, while Cyrillic and Kanji and other users have to resort to transliteration? -- Dmitry Borodaenko
