On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 04:15:10PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi there, > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 02:18:10PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > given that we regularly identify bugs, at least for GNOME, that manifest > > only when using a non-UTF8 locale - and I mean important bugs like not > > being able to unlock the screensaver, non-working screenreader, or > > impossibility to list filenames in both a terminal and the file > > navigator - I think the release notes should strongly advise users of > > legacy locales to upgrade to UTF-8. > > Are there bug reports for these individual issues that you mention? Locale > encoding is a touchy political issue as well as involving a certain > coordinated transition in the case of shared filesystems, so if we're going > to recommend that users switch to UTF-8 as part of the upgrade to squeeze, > I'd like us to be able to point somewhere for more information about the > problems they'll run into if they don't.
There may well be reasons for not switching to UTF-8 -- Japanese files containing lots of hiragana will all get significantly larger. Those users will really need ocnvincing. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
