Andrei POPESCU <[email protected]> > As someone using and translating to a language where some special > characters are available only in UTF-8[1] I'd recommend to avoid it if > possible. It's not enough to have the correct locale, the font used to > display it has to contain that character too.
And sadly even some hardware on sale now that runs debian has a system font without it. But more to the point, why do it? Just to save two characters and maybe one byte? (And as I was just reminded by a bounced email, mail-mode in the Emacs in debian stable doesn't handle UTF-8 in email headers correctly...) Thanks -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
