On Sunday 03 September 2006 10:15, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Exactly people with native English viewpoint are the most active > UTF-8 supporters because they don't see bugs (and the bugs are > avoidable by using 8-bit locales like ru_RU.KOI8-R).
You're 100% right! I had UTF-8 issues with XML parser in PHP5 that were absent in PHP4. The documentation contains nearly the following "Improved UTF-8 support in XML parser". It had become harder to use "usual" 8-bit encodings with PHP5, and I have to translate data from UTF-8 to CP1251 _by hand_ due to the "improvement about UTF-8". A few years ago I used RedHat 8.0 (the first RedHat based on UTF-8). I tried to solve different problems (especially with midnight commander and bash) for weeks until somebody suggested me to install MC from older RedHat, and that worked fine. The problem was due to mc being configured with UTF-8 support in 8.0. A year ago I tried to setup my linux box to use UTF-8 for the second time but I still had so many problems (with such _basic_ tools as bash and mc) that I returned to ru_RU.CP1251. The most important is that the problems are still the same as they were several years ago and nobody seems to be going to solve them. -- Nothing but perfection pv -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
