On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 11:10:17PM -0600, David Starner wrote: > > I tend to prefer having features default to enabled if they're usable > > by fully compliant clients--those with broken clients (even if they're > > currently the majority) can disable it. > > Why do you think clients that can't display these quotes are broken? By > the nature of the PC console, the Linux console (on the ix86, at least) > can only display 512 different characters, 256 if you want bold > characters. Conformant Unicode systems can support whatever set of > characters they want. Give me a list of characters (< 256) that > en_*.UTF-8 should support, and a consensus, then we can start > claiming they're broken and fixing them.
Because these characters have trivial fallbacks if they're not available: βand β to ", β to ' and β to `. -- Glenn Maynard -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
