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"Edward H. Trager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Friday 2005.02.18 13:07:51 +0000, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
>> 
>> It's sad that with Debian/Ubuntu you do not get UTF-8 locales by
>> default.
>> 
>
> The lack of UTF-8 locales by default in any modern Linux distribution
> needs to be treated as a BUG and reported to the distribution vendor in
> their Bugzilla system. 
>
> I have been planning to do this for the latest Ubuntu (Warthog), but I haven't
> got around to it yet.
>
> Think about it: any time any of us sees or uses a new distribution without 
> UTF-8
> locales by default, this needs to be filed as a bug report.

Please do file bugs against the relevant Debian packages.  I would
like to see this happen, but there is resistance to changing even the
default at installation time.  Please see

http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/01/msg00315.html


Regards,
Roger


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