Re: editor alternatives?
Hi,
At 19 Oct 2001 14:25:38 +0100,
Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> (And anyway it seems perfectly plausible that multibyte characters
> would be legitimate in some hypothetical configuration file, too.
> Hmm. What encoding should the "gecos" field in /etc/passwd use?)
IMO, it is a bad idea to use non-ASCII characters for configuration
files. (All encodings share 7-bit ASCII part.) Though this is not
documented anywhere, violation to this rule will annoy users.
(One machine may have users from multiple countries.)
In future, when all of us will come to use UTF-8, UTF-8 will be
able to be used for configuration files.
Of course users can use non-ASCII (8bit or multibyte) characters
personally at their own risk.
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Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
"Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/
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