On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:41:09AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:13:00AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > 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. > What is the problem with UTF-8 in the Italian locale? I've been it_IT.UTF-8 for quite a while with no problems. And I also get to be able to write the name of my girlfriend, which Latin1 cannot encode, together with accented Italian words, which BIG5 cannot encode. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org>
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