> ja_JP.UTF-8 works fine > in SuSE Linux, in fact for me it works much better than ja_JP.eucJP > because it enables me to use German Umlauts at the same time.
The same is true of ko_KR.UTF-8 vs ko_KR.EUC-KR under RedHat8 and Mandrake. I've been using self-assembled ko_KR.UTF-8 for over half a year and I would never turn back. Also, see <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150131> and <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9449>. Bug 9449 for Mozilla is one of the most duplicated(and misunderstood) bugs. Switching to UTF-8 locale from legacy encoding based locale is like switching to completely Unicode-based Windows 2k/XP from "ANSI" codepage-based Windows 9x/ME. Although _NET_WM extension, in principle, made it possible to render any Unicode characters in the title bar of compliant WMs, in practice, it hasn't worked very well under non-UTF-8 locales. (fontset had to be set correctly to cover the full repertoire of Unicode characters). However, under UTF-8 locales, Kwin and metacity (both compliant to _NET_WM extension) work almost out of the box in terms of rendering multilingual texts in the title bar. Jungshik -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
