Re: advantages and disadvantages of local/lang en_CA.UTF-8?
Wei Chen <wchenhk@gmail.com>:
> On 6/6/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> > 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
> >
> > Wei (or is it Chen?),
>
> Normally it should be Wei ;-)
Really? I too was under the impression that family names come first
in your culture. Sorry to assume too much.
> > 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?
>
> Actually I can read your file regardless what your locale setting and my
> locale setting are (unless one of them is something like utf-16, which is
> not ASCII compatible; I am not sure whether this kind of locales exist),
> as long as the file is solely in English.
>
> Things only become difficult when characters in some other languages
> are involved, e.g. Chinese.
Damn, this stuff is ... inconvenient. You're posting using
iso-8859-1. I'm attempting to accomodate foreign charsets (well,
those I can read) by using iso-8859-15 (Latin-9?). Your post is far
more readable for me than was Stephan Seitz' (utf-8) post, which was
only barely readable here.
When slrn has utf-8 support, I'll change. :-(
[Sorry if I spelt your name wrong, Stephan. I'm trying your
//TRANSLIT trick in mutt. Hopefully, I got enough out of your post to
try it correctly. Thx.]
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