On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Derek D. Martin wrote:
> The problem is that Red Hat, and probably other vendors, have changed the
> default locale.

  Expect this problem to get worse as more and more of the three billion or
so non-English-speaking people in the world begin using computers.

  Personally, I expect it to get much worse before it gets any better.  
Wait until Unicode superceeds ASCII, and suddenly all the C programs that
assume one character == one byte stop working.

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Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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