Bug#99324: Default charset should be UTF-8

[Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT>]

On Jun 01, Roland Mas <lolando@debian.org> wrote:

 >> Most people (with the possible exception of part of the CJK
 >> community) do not want to use unicode yet, deal with it.
 >
 >Excuse me?  "With the possible exception of the CJK community"?  What
 >about people speaking (and writing/typing) Arabic, Hebrew, Greek,
 >Russian and whatnot?
I don't know about Arabic and Hebrew, but russian people don't like
unicode and do not want to switch from the KOI-8 and KOI-8r encodings.

 >  I gather you're Italian, so you might need some
 >accents (I remember seeing some "è").
Yes, and I already have a correctly working national encoding, thank you.

 >  In *my* experience, most people *do* want to use Unicode.  I would
Just don't force it on everybody else.

I'd love to be able to use unicode for everything, but the reality is
that the software is not yet good enough to support it to the same level
of the national encodings.

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ciao,
Marco