Bug#99933: second attempt at more comprehensive unicode policy
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 10:22, John Goerzen wrote:
> Then your solution is broken. Seriously, this would be a huge problem
> for many people.
But the current situation is *already* broken! For example, for a
Chinese person, an ISO-8859-1 system simply cannot encode, nor display,
their language. I am aware that for people entrenched in legacy
charsets like ISO-8859-1, the transition may introduce
incompatibilities. But that's the price we pay to eventually make
everything work for everyone.
> I am vehemently opposed to any proposal that renders Debian
> substantially unusable on existing ASCII/latin1 terminals. I think it
> is great to use Unicode internally, but we clearly are not pursuing
> the right path if we introduce such breakage.
It is the only path to the future. Note that in my proposal, I do
suggest that programs try to re-encode from UTF-8 back to the user's
locale charset.
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