Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Global files such as /etc/*, /usr/include/*, etc. obviously *must* remain >in a locale invariant encoding. This is today ISO 646 IRV (US-ASCII). >Hopefully it will one day become UTF-8. ISO 8859-1 has no place in >/etc/passwd and similar files and should be strongly discouraged there.
It is possible to encode strings in global files into *locale-independent* format as MIME RFC-2047, like MIME-encoded headers in ALL modern e-mail (with any Charsets, even UTF-8 ;). So, MUA could take this strings as-is. To: =?utf-8?B?0LXRg9GL0LU=?= -- -=AV=- - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
