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Re: Unicode: is it safe to use it ?



On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:37:29 +0200
Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> wrote:


> It seems that 10 years after its creation, Unicode is not as used as it
> should be (my opinion) and so, I am not sure many software
> (communication software) are "aware" of Unicode stuff. Except bloated
> piece of software such as Outlook, is there any risk I can encounter by
> using utf-8 in my daily default encoding system ?

Dear Xavier,

I'd be interested to know how to use Unicode as the default system. You mean just by setting the locale, or is there more? I'd be interested in setting up all my apps to use it, and would report back (on this list) how well it worked (or didn't work).

regards,
Robert



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