On Jan 26, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Andrey N. Oktyabrski wrote:
> On 26.01.12 10:21, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> Then I looked around, and I see other candidates to remove.
>> Basically, I'm going to propose removing all the 8-bit character sets
>> *except* Latin-1. (Latin-1 is too widely used as a stand-in for
>> ASCII.)
> In the US Latin-1 is widely used, but f.e. in the Russia koi8-r & win-1251
> are widely used.
>
>> Would anyone here miss any other encodings? KOI8-R? 8859-9? 8859-4? etc.
>>
>> I see value in preserving only ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-15, along with
>> UTF-8 which should serve the entire world. But before I start nuking
>> things, I want your opinion. Do you use these encodings with illumos
>> or Solaris?
> I use koi8-r & windows-1251 in the PostgreSQL and nginx. In the new projects
> I use utf-8 only, but I have some old code which I can't rewrite now.
Do you just need support for the encodings (via iconv or whatever) or do you
need the actual locales to be present on the system?
I'm thinking UTF-8 ought to be sufficient, but I confess I'm not sure I
understand why the encoding would matter at all for the login locale -- except
perhaps you might be interfacing with systems via e.g. telnet or ssh, which
don't support UTF-8 but have a legacy locale. (Are such concerns still
relevant?)
- Garrett
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