Bug#435802: linux-latest-2.6: GNU/Linux kernel should use CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="utf-8"
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 12:40:40PM +0200, Raúl Sánchez Siles wrote:
> > Sorry, in what sense is this true? Does 'mount.smbfs -o iocharset=utf8'
> > not work as expected?
> Well, I should have explained better. That command would work as expected, but
> I'm talking about the default behaviour, so if you don't specify -o
> iocharset=utf8 the default will be iso-8859-1.
Ok. Then yes, we're in agreement that UTF-8 would be the more appropriate
default.
I think it would be a bad idea to change this for etch now that we've
released, but for lenny it should be considered.
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