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Re: localization-config uploaded (former locale-config-skolelinux)



* Petter Reinholdtsen [2004-08-17 22:21:44+0200]
> [Konstantinos Margaritis]
> > Why don't we just use UTF-8? I've been using for Greek for more than a 
> > year and it's been much easier (and Greek is a difficult case 
> > anyway). And it solves all these silly problems of @euro and weird 
> > encodings. Not to mention it's more universal.
> 
> Ah, to boldly go there RedHat has gone before.
> 
> Nah, don't think so, yet.
> 
> There has been lots of UTF-8 glibc fixes the last year, and I suspect
> more are to come as RedHat and others keep finding bugs.  And I know
> from experience that using UTF-8 all over give compatibility problems.
> Did you ever try to log into a Solaris box from a RedHat 9 box using
> UTF-8?  I did.  All 8bit chars were messed up.

Completely agreed.  I've experienced a lot of problems with tr_TR.UTF-8.

-- 
roktas

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