On Jun 08, Roger Leigh <rleigh@whinlatter.ukfsn.org> wrote: > > Wrong. The problem is packages which need to interact with text files, > > mail and usenet messages generated by broken software, and for which > > assuming UTF-8 would be totally wrong. > This is completely orthogonal to making UTF-8 the default locale > codeset. No, it's not because most applications do not allow setting a different "default charset". > The transition will in no way affect your need to use an old-fashioned > 8-bit locale codeset if you need to do that. I fully expect that many > people will do exactly this for years to come, and the changing of the > *default* will not prevent this. So you think that we should change the default and then tell everybody to switch back to have their systems working as expected? > Please bear in mind that this is a change we need to make, which most > of the major commercial distributions did over a year ago, if not > before. This hardly makes it a "need". Unsurprisingly, looks you live in a country where anything else than US-ASCII was rarely used in the past. -- ciao, Marco
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