Re: Charsets on Debian
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 02:22:58PM +0100, Sven wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 12:23:41PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > There's no such thing as a ``default'' charset; there's the locale's
> > charset. The default Western-European locales (fr_FR, de_DE, etc.)
> > use ISO 8859-1, but there are variant locales that use ISO 8859-15
> > (fr_FR@euro, etc.) and other variants that use UTF-8 (fr_FR.UTF8 etc.)
>
> But you might want to use a given charset to display stuff, but use another
> language for your locales.
>
> An example of this is when you have a mail reading program, where you wish to
> be able to view ISO 8859-1 correctly, but still keep the english localized
> messages.
That's why the different locale categories (LC_MESSAGES etc.) exist.
In the case of a mail reading program, of course, it would be quite
reasonable for it to override the default character set with the
character set of the incoming mail.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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