[Matthew Garrett] > Defining the character set as utf-8 means that any non-unicode > capable application is going to have issues, yes. Postulate an app that is ignorant of character sets - we'll call it "aptitude". Fixing it to make it accept utf-8 and spit out the correct encoding for its LC_CTYPE is no harder than fixing it to make it accept iso-8859-1 and spit out the correct encoding for its LC_CTYPE. And if the app already deals with charset conversions but assumes iso-8859-1 input, then it's trivial to fix it to assume utf-8 input. Peter
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