On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Dom Lachowicz wrote: > Changing your locale to utf-8 will *not* for instance change the > actual encoding of /etc/password to utf-8 : it's still in iso-latin-1 or > whatever.
Global files such as /etc/*, /usr/include/*, etc. obviously *must* remain in a locale invariant encoding. This is today ISO 646 IRV (US-ASCII). Hopefully it will one day become UTF-8. ISO 8859-1 has no place in /etc/passwd and similar files and should be strongly discouraged there. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
