Re: Bug#292330: project: UTF-8 as default

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

rleigh@whinlatter.ukfsn.org wrote:

>I think the locales package is the place to start this.  For etch, I
>would like the UTF-8 locales to be the default for all languages (with
This would be stupid, pointless and would piss off a lot of people.
But since your native language is english I suppose that it may be
hard to you to understand the reason for this.
The quantity of untagged data (especially in emails and text files) is
so high that using UTF-8 as the default encoding is inappropriate in
many locales.

This obviously does not means that UTF-8 cannot be the appropriate
default encoding for other locales.

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ciao,
Marco