On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 16:15:10 -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. > Joss, ping? Cheers, Julien
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