On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 04:23:03PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2012-11-29 15:46:35 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > But it will in a UTF8 locale, > > Unfortunately the C locale is the only really portable one.
Debian's glibc has C.UTF-8 always available these days. > > or in an ISO-8859-1 locale, for instance. > > In a C locale, the é character simply does not exist, so you can't enter > > it. > > The config file may have been generated under some locale (or in > an application where locales are ignored or can be ignored, say > GNU Emacs), but scripts may run in other locales, in particular C > for more portability. It's high time to kill ancient encodings. They're a maintenance burden, and also, GUIs stopped paying even lip service to non-UTF8 quite some time ago. There's some discussion in #603914, although it has been derailed by minutiae of behaviour of LC_CTYPE=C, which are mostly irrelevant for getting rid of ISO-8859 and friends. Besides, even today, if someone has a config file in an encoding other than the one currently selected, that's an user error. Here XML trying to support that is a downside rather than upside. -- How to squander your resources: those silly Swedes have a sauce named "hovmästarsås", the best thing ever to put on cheese, yet they waste it solely on mere salmon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121129170805.gb23...@angband.pl