It's impressing how quickly threads on this list grow big. :-) I'm not sure, whether a conclusion is already reached.
1. apt-get install mysql 2. enter mysql client 3. create database test; create table test( test char(10) ); Replace mysql with whatever application you like. What should be the encoding of database and table test in cases like the above? Currently it's iso-something, discriminating everybody from other countries. If it would be utf-8 instead, it would have at least two advantages - The clueless user would get a sane default - utf-8 isn't as discriminating as iso-8859-1 Best regards, Thomas Koch > Hi, > > I've an issue, that I forgot to set the character encoding of tomcat to > utf-8 after reinstalling a server. > Now, before I report a wishlist(?) bug to tomcat, I want to ask (and invite > to discuss) shouldn't utf8 be the default character set everywhere? So when > installing a package from Debian I can assume that where a character > encoding can be set, it't set to utf8. > MySQL would be another example, which to my knowledge uses isoXYZ as > default character encoding. > > Best regards, > > Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org