Bug#99933: second attempt at more comprehensive unicode policy

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 03:50:45PM -0800, David Starner wrote:
> If you're using a terminal that can't support UTF-8, you always have the 
> option of running
> something like GNU screen to translate the system charset to the terminal 
> charset.
> It seems more important to get a systemwide encoding working, then worry 
> about the
> minority who use physical terminals.

It's not just physical terminals we're talking about here.  We're talking
about the vast majority of the state of the art terminal emulators *today*. 
Debian's latest stable release does not use Unicode by default in either KDE
or Gnome, AFAIK.  The console in the latest stable release does not use
Unicode by default either.

Then we have all the other Linux distros, plus Solaris, AIX, AS/400, etc,
etc, etc.

Hell, we're doing good to get some things to support *ASCII*.