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

[Arthur Korn <arthur@korn.ch>]

Hi

Marco d'Itri schrieb:
>  >Granted, unicode might not be ready for Japanese.
>  >But, should we wait until it is ready?
> Yes. I have no desire to suffer because you consider more elegant
> switching everything to unicode right now.

As Radovan wrote in this thread some time back:
> > I would not go against making programs utf-8-aware,
> > but I don't think that changing all the documentation to utf-8
> > is going too far.                                             
> 
> not yet - it will be just recommendation so far

I think paving the way for using UTF-8 where it makes sense is a
Good Thing, but people must be able to make theyer own
decisions.

ciao, 2ri
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