On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 18:01 -0400, Dan Winship wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > GTK/Glib are not the biggest problem here. You also use C library > > functions in Gnome applications. Glib/Gtk+ works with the C library in C > > locale simply because ASCII is a subset of UTF-8. That ceases to work the > > moment you introduce UTF-8 bytesequences into non utf-8 locales. > > Are there actually legitimate reasons for anyone to ever use a non-UTF-8 > locale these days?
Other than legacy, and wanting to find bugs in programs? Probably not... Maybe somebody should break the compatibility view and make the C locale UTF-8. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
