On 19 Jun 2011, at 09:24, André Malo wrote:
> * Nick Kew wrote:
>
>> On 19 Jun 2011, at 07:19, André Malo wrote:
>>> The non-latin-1 charsets are overridden by extensions already. Only the
>>> default was changed...
>>
>> And we got it wrong, breaking the site.
>
> ... for those files which assumed iso-8859-1 sofar. I've already suggested a
> further configuration change to fix that.
Which completely misses the point of simplifying away from gratuitous
complexity.
What about a sysop whose native language is non-European?
Say, for example, a sysop at a Japanese university. If they make
the same mistake we just did, they'll never notice ('cos it doesn't
affect the japanese), and the brokenness will only affect a minority
of foreign users.
Our unnecessary complexity has just let that user down!
So far, nothing you've said has indicated that the complexity
is anything other than gratuitous. I put the question regarding
Russian and Korean (on which I'm not competent to comment),
but have yet to receive any feedback thereupon.
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