On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 12:32 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Tuesday 28 February 2006 11:58, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > During that discussion we realized that having utf-8 not enabled by > > default and no utf8 fonts available by default causes lots of > > recompilation and reconfiguration. > At the same time, you'll probably hear people bitching about UTF-8 being > enabled because "it's not needed for me, should be the rest of the world to > change".... It is still optional, just enabled by default :-) All the people with non-ASCII charsets will have less work, only that we switch the load from, say, 75% of the users fixing their environment to 25% of users having to switch.
And who doesn't want UTF-8? Just being able to see a Japanese Website as it was intended (even if I can't read it) is a nice feature. So - apart from some users maybe not wanting it, any technical reasons against? > I'd be the first to be interested in having it enabled by default, tho. Yes, otherwise spelling your name is almost impossible :-) Patrick -- Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move
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