> Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 18:51:43 -0800 > From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]> > CC: [email protected], [email protected] > > >> But the fix is simple and readily available: use a UTF-8 locale. > > > > It is not readily available (the UTF-8 locale might not be installed), > > This objection had force decades ago, when this situation was common. > But it's uncommon now. All standard distributions come with > UTF-8 locales and support for UTF-8 encoding.
I see no data to back that up. > >> It's readable. > > > > No, it's not. Let me show it again, > > It's readable, in the sense that it doesn't significantly > affect the reader's ability to understand the presented > material. The mojibake *is* really ugly, admittedly. Your judgment seems evidently to be clouded in this matter, but I will let others make up their minds regarding the readability.
