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Re: And now for something completely different... etch!



Le mercredi 08 juin 2005 à 10:13 +0200, Marco d'Itri a écrit :
> On Jun 07, Roger Leigh <rleigh@whinlatter.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> 
> > - - The locale codeset should be UTF-8 for all new installs by default.
> FFS! When will people learn to not mess with other cultures they know
> nothing about?
> Feel free to advocate a different default charset for *your* locale, but
> do not pretend to know what's better for other locales.

As we have hundreds of broken packages assuming e.g. that the filenames
on disk are encoded in the current locale's character set, the only way
to make them interact properly with other applications is to set a
UTF8-locale.
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