On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 01:31:57PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 10:22, John Goerzen wrote: > > > Then your solution is broken. Seriously, this would be a huge problem > > for many people. > > But the current situation is *already* broken! For example, for a > Chinese person, an ISO-8859-1 system simply cannot encode, nor display, > their language. I am aware that for people entrenched in legacy > charsets like ISO-8859-1, the transition may introduce > incompatibilities. But that's the price we pay to eventually make > everything work for everyone.
See http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2003-01/msg00037.html It would be nice to make sure programs are ready before switching everything to utf-8. Denis
