On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 06:27:48PM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > Support of 8-bit characters by default > > > > Some programs need special configuration options to work 8-bit > > clean. This is very important for a lot of non-English users who > > need to input umlauts, accented characters, etc. All Debian > > packages will be configured to be 8-bit clean by default. > > Hi. > > I would like to question the need for this requirement. > While this can be of importance to some users, it can be quite > annoying to others. What it means is saying "good-bye" to clean > ascii e-mail, etc. What is more important, *some* utilities, > "less" most notably, *shouldn't* be 8-bit clean.
I don't understand that. Could you explain that? Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / Whenever you meet yourself you're in a time loop / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ or in front of a mirror / -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .