-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Egmont Koblinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 06:44:11PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > So if there's anything to do with legacy support, that should be yet another > per-terminal ioctl or whatever flag (just as current IUTF8) which tells the > default when the terminal is reset. And then let _its_ default be > configurable at kernel compile time or by a sysctl... I don't think it's all > worth it. I have a feeling that people often want to spend way too much > effort to support both legacy and UTF-8, I believe it'd be much simpler and > faster to fully switch to UTF-8 as quickly as possible... Sure, but don't underestimate the numbers of entrenched users using legacy encodings, who absolutely refuse to switch. There are a number of folks actively against using UTF-8, and many more who would be rather angry if we broke legacy encodings, who could hinder its adoption if we break compatibility, so we should make sure not to, at least for the next few years. See the discussion starting here as an example: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/06/msg00627.html The end result is here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=312927 i.e. the end result of all that grief is a 1-line patch that flips the order of UTF-8 locales in a list. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQFC4UH8VcFcaSW/uEgRAtxPAJ41TPzsU6a3Dk0cNDlAUoaIa+B7WgCgguXo 3ePpxxrVyWzYBVQt4W98Iqc= =dY91 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
