-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Benjamin Scott said:
> 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. This really *shouldn't* be much of a problem, as there are already well-established routines for decoding Unicode, through which applications should feed their input at such time as that becomes appropriate. Note the emphasis on "shouldn't" above... ;-) - -- Derek Martin Senior System Administrator Mission Critical Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8XvP0djdlQoHP510RAjluAJ9IkmYan8jBDvxAEB8jM6Pytpj9FACgoPx/ Y7D8YHvPz+hVQ3sgXT0xwx0= =UAd6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
