Re: advantages and disadvantages of local/lang en_CA.UTF-8?
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 09:17:32PM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> On 6/5/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> >I'm in Canada speaking and writing English with a off-the-shelf North
> >American computer with a standard US keyboard.
> >
> >Up until etch, lang was C and nothing was UTF. What are the advantages
> >to me of etch setting a default language en_CA.UTF-8 and other locale
> >settings? What are the disadvantages?
>
> The other advantage is that everything that isn't UTF-8 already is moving
> towards it. Sooner or later you'll probably have very little choice about
> using it.
>
Could you define "everything"? Do you mean README text file, html,
what? If so, do you mean that if I were running with 'C' I couldn't
read them?
Also, does "everything" mean within Debian or everything on the
internet?
Doug.
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