On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 08:51:32PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 04:15:10PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Hi there, > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 02:18:10PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > given that we regularly identify bugs, at least for GNOME, that manifest > > > only when using a non-UTF8 locale - and I mean important bugs like not > > > being able to unlock the screensaver, non-working screenreader, or > > > impossibility to list filenames in both a terminal and the file > > > navigator - I think the release notes should strongly advise users of > > > legacy locales to upgrade to UTF-8. > > Are there bug reports for these individual issues that you mention? Locale > > encoding is a touchy political issue as well as involving a certain > > coordinated transition in the case of shared filesystems, so if we're going > > to recommend that users switch to UTF-8 as part of the upgrade to squeeze, > > I'd like us to be able to point somewhere for more information about the > > problems they'll run into if they don't. > There may well be reasons for not switching to UTF-8 -- Japanese files > containing lots of hiragana will all get significantly larger. > Those users will really need ocnvincing. Given that text files no longer account for even a significant minority of disk usage on a typical system, and most other file types have built-in encoding negotiation of some sort, I don't think that's still a credible argument not to switch. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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