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Re: advantages and disadvantages of local/lang en_CA.UTF-8?



On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 01:24:32PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote:
 
> Things could be easy for English speaking people, since UTF-8 is fully
> compatible with ASCII. However, for people that do not speak English,
> for example CJK people, using UTF-8 may mean not compatible with others
> that use legacy character encodings.

Wei (or is it Chen?),

Could you give me an example?  If I write a text file on my en_CA.UTF-8
system and send it to you, are you saying that since you're not using
en_CA.UTF-8 that you can't read it since you are using CJK?  If I were
back to using 'C', could you?

Doug.



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