A number of places in protocol code need support for various 8-bit
character sets.
For example, you can configure NFS to convert to/from some of these and utf-8
when serving NFS v2, v3.  (NFSv4 does utf-8)

It would take me a little time to get a complete list, but I remember
seeing things
like EUC-* SJIS-* and various ISO-8859-* sets in use in SMB for some "OEM"
strings (legacy stuff).

I'm not sure about the need for the locale data for any of those.
Maybe that could go away, but is there much benefit in that?


2012/1/26 Garrett D'Amore <[email protected]>:
>> 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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