On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 12:20 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Zygmunt Bazyli Krynicki > <[email protected]> wrote: > > As a command-not-found maintainer I can tell you that 90% of the bugs are > > encoding related. Just last week I've noticed that screen on oneiric > > happily produces incorrect multibyte sequences for the same keystrokes that > > work correctly under the same terminal emulator. The number of people > > running with the utterly broken C (ASCII) locale is staggering. > > I have had arguments in my LUG with people who think Ubuntu should not > ship any translations because they're just a waste of disk space and > that C(ASCII) is the One True Value for $LANG, Unicode and UTF-8 are > evil, and anyone who uses any other charset can go jump off a cliff. > > As someone who loves studying languages, it makes me want to slap them > with a fish over TCP/IP.
RFC 1149 would provide a better delivery mechanism for fish-slaps, but at the risk of greater "packet" loss. The data may get eaten, instead.
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