Does OLVWM work properly with UTF8, or does it require the other character encodings that we are looking to purge?
Yes, we still use olwm heavily - but only with US character sets. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 27, 2012, at 12:43 AM, "Andrey N. Oktyabrski" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27.01.12 05:02, Garrett D'Amore wrote: >>>> 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? > LC_* environment variables and lc_* postgresql.conf settings. At least, it > affects collations. > >> 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?) > I use utf-8 everywhere in the interactive shell. But some server software > can't use multibyte locales. > > > ------------------------------------------- > illumos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175845-b97465aa > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
