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



Le jeudi 09 juin 2005 à 13:21 +0200, Marco d'Itri a écrit :
> On Jun 09, Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.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.
> > Please come up with real-life examples. Most mail software in Debian, as
> > well as a good share of our text editors, can deal with several
> > character sets.
> I did. The problem is not if they can deal with LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, but
> how they deal with unlabeled Latin 1 text streams when LANG=it_IT.UTF-8.

At least evolution and all mozilla derivatives can set a default
character set for unlabeled text streams.
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