Re: Debian doesn't have to be slower than time.
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> - Programs must switch the settings relative to used charset
What does that mean?
> - using UTF8 as the default charset
Bad idea. Use whatever the user set for the locale. And locales already have
a default charset.
Make that "have all locales correctly deal with UTF8". If the user wants to
use his locale with an UTF8 charset, so be it. Otherwise, leave it alone.
> other crapy slow solutions) and a customised subset of Unicode as
> character map? I mean: I need only 128bit ASCII, few chars from
Yes, but it is probably not very easy. You need a font, and the correct
translation map for that font.
> iso-8859-15 and about 60 chars from koi8 charset. All this should fit
> in 255 chars.
You can have 512 I think, but I don't recall what you give up for that extra
bit.
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