-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes:
> On Jun 08, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> As we have hundreds of broken packages assuming e.g. that the filenames >> on disk are encoded in the current locale's character set, the only way >> to make them interact properly with other applications is to set a >> UTF8-locale. > Wrong. The problem is packages which need to interact with text files, > mail and usenet messages generated by broken software, and for which > assuming UTF-8 would be totally wrong. This is completely orthogonal to making UTF-8 the default locale codeset. The transition will in no way affect your need to use an old-fashioned 8-bit locale codeset if you need to do that. I fully expect that many people will do exactly this for years to come, and the changing of the *default* will not prevent this. Please bear in mind that this is a change we need to make, which most of the major commercial distributions did over a year ago, if not before. Have you tried installing a recent SuSE or RedHat to check this? When I checked late last year, all locales were UTF-8 by default. We should have done this long before sarge was released. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQFCp1AlVcFcaSW/uEgRAs6GAJ4vMt+LVtRtt1xkLtLVF+vNWJQgVACgiZkb 6rnIalPBufuLiu0gi+2LjNI= =BSIL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]