Thu, 8 Aug 2002 03:16:09 -0700, Ashley Yakeley <ashley@semantic.org> pisze:

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With, perhaps, UTF-8 as a reasonable default?

Perhaps it should _always_ be UTF-8?

My files are not in UTF-8, so reading them as UTF-8 is wrong. Files are in the locale encoding unless the programmer explicitly specifies otherwise. This is what the locale is for. Filenames are also in the current locale (in my case ISO-8859-2). When Linux has enough tools which deal with UTF-8 (text editors, shells etc.), I might someday switch to UTF-8. Rename files with ISO-8859-2 filenames to UTF-8 on reiserfs partitions, mount the FAT partition as UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-2 etc., and start using UTF-8 in file contents, and change the locale so gettextized error messages from programs come as UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-2. It haven't happened yet. Please don't decide for me that I should use UTF-8. I'm not ready yet. 90% of non-ASCII texts I deal with are in ISO-8859-2 and this default is described by the locale. -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk \__/ qrczak@knm.org.pl ^^ http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/