On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 03:48:45PM +0000, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > David> Users should be able to expect that you can send a file > > > David> from one Linux box to another in the same locale without > > > David> having to recode it. > > > > > > They should, but they can't. > > > > Why not? The main exception is going to be the Euroizing nations, which > > are split between ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-15. Everyone else has more or > > less one charset standard. > > Plus UTF-8, so most nations have more than one standard encoding, and > the West European Euro nations have three.
Sure, but only the charset geeks currently use UTF-8 unless they have to. And ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-15 are close enough for most people to treat them as identical without problems. (All the alphabetic characters are the same going from -1 to -15.) Still, I don't think adding more charsets without good cause is a good thing. Adding CP487 into the mix won't make it any more fun. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED], dvdeug/jabber.com (Jabber) Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org What we've got is a blue-light special on truth. It's the hottest thing with the youth. -- Information Society, "Peace and Love, inc." -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
