Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> writes: > I think wheezy would be a good time to finally ditch non-UTF8 locales. > IIRC, we made the switch to UTF8 by default in etch (and we were already > way too late in doing that), and supporting non-UTF8 stuff becomes > harder and harder, at least for desktop software. In testing, the C and POSIX locales still don't use UTF-8. I don't know about unstable. My latest use of LANG=fi_FI.ISO-8859-1 was when I had a VT420 connected to a serial port (largely for diagnosing graphics driver problems). No UTF-8 support there. However, even then, it would have been better to use LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8 and recode only the terminal I/O with some wrapper, so that file names would have been consistently UTF-8. The luit program cannot be used for that because it supports only UTF-8 terminals in legacy locales, rather than vice versa. If I remember correctly, tmux doesn't support such conversions either, but screen does.
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