Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > yes. Patrick: it's really the case that recent versions of Linux > and other OSes AFAIK really behave differently : They default > to set locales based on UTF-8 whereas before, often locales > where based on iso-* (e.g. iso-8859-1 for "Western Europe"-like). > > And even more problematically (if you want to stay back > continuing to use iso-8859-x instead of UTF-8): Man pages and > other files are delivered encoded in UTF-8 as well. > So you are more or less urged to go along with the wave...
Yes. I don't think you do want to stay with the iso-8859-x, even though it is going to be a pain to switch for those of us that have masses of files (and file names!) written in 8bit encodings. In retrospect, the iso-8859 encodings (and IBM code pages too, for that matter) were a huge mistake, precisely because they let you have files in multiple non-ascii encodings without a way to specify which one was used. Those of us who have tried every encoding of our national alphabets since ISO-646 (not to mention FIELDATA) are getting a bit tired of it all, but there might be some hope that Unicode/UTF-8 is the end of our troubles (unless Microsoft manages to screw everything up again by their use of UTF-16...). -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
