On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 09:07:25PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Debian wasn't fully 8-bit clean until Hamm, in 1998. (That is, any program that >wasn't 8-bit clean was fixed or removed.)
Certainly not completely true. As an couterexample, take finger/fingerd programs. They throw out non-ASCII characters. Even when finger is used locally. At least this was the situation a year ago, when I was playing with this. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garab�k http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread! -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
