-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'd propose to set the default for locales to en_US.ISO-8859-15. As far, > as I understand, this won't cause any problems for English speakers, and > it enables French and German special chars at the same time.
Although the set of characters in ISO-8859-15 is much more favorable than that in ISO-8859-1, I think this is a bad idea for two reasons: 1. many files in the Debian distribution would have to be recoded, and 2. such an intermediate transition from ISO-8859-1 to -15 would mitigate the urge to switch to UTF-8 as the ultimate default character encoding, which is definitely the right way to go in the long run! The first argument applies to the aimed-at UTF-8 transition as well, of course. But since the switch to UTF-8 will hopefully happen *in any case* sooner or later, there's no need to perform an extra transition before that. Julian. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Get my PGP public key at <http://www.mehnle.net/about>. iQA/AwUBPog0AcC+zypQWVo7EQJL0QCcCLCSzrh/gX/sVAKXfneqrEgzQagAoMG7 fSZpxwwVrw/MQa43BNBZcsAC =7B1D -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----