On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 02:22:58PM +0100, Sven wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 12:23:41PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > There's no such thing as a ``default'' charset; there's the locale's > > charset. The default Western-European locales (fr_FR, de_DE, etc.) > > use ISO 8859-1, but there are variant locales that use ISO 8859-15 > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED], etc.) and other variants that use UTF-8 (fr_FR.UTF8 > > etc.) > > But you might want to use a given charset to display stuff, but use another > language for your locales. > > An example of this is when you have a mail reading program, where you wish to > be able to view ISO 8859-1 correctly, but still keep the english localized > messages.
That's why the different locale categories (LC_MESSAGES etc.) exist. In the case of a mail reading program, of course, it would be quite reasonable for it to override the default character set with the character set of the incoming mail. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
