Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Some of the users for which 8-bit encodings work might still prefer
> UTF-8 for compatibility with RedHat (at the cost of incompatibility with
> the rest of the world). Also UTF-8 support is a requirement for LSB
> certification.

Ubuntu 5.04 also uses pt_BR.UTF-8 on a default "Br. Portuguese"
installation, although it's broken on the text console (things like "ls
--help" show strange characters intead of e.g. accents). OTOH, GNOME
works fine with UTF-8 (including gnome-terminal).

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