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Re: Bug#99324: Default charset should be UTF-8



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

 >now we miss the euro sign too.  The transition to Latin-9
 >(ISO-8859-15, with the euro and the missing characters) is *already*
 >causing *major* nerve breakage amongst people.
Right. It's already bad when broken applications don't work well with an
encoding different from the one used by most people in may country,
guess what would happen with a multibyte encoding.
(I'd have switched to latin-9 if there would not be so many broken
applications.)

 >  And how exactly do you expect to get the developers to care about
 >Unicode if no-one is putting some pressure on them?  They already
This is a free software project. You don't put pressure on other people,
or these people will tell you to fuck off.
If you want something to be done, you do it.

-- 
ciao,
Marco



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