On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 09:59, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote: > 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.
A growing amount of software in Debian has UTF-8 support. I have been using a fully UTF-8 locale for some time. At least gnome-terminal has excellent support for UTF-8; xterm has support too if you invoke it as 'uxterm'. So I think the support is already here. > 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? I think after we switch to UTF-8, there's no reason why you should.
