Danilo Segan wrote: > > 2. Is there any known application which still uses ISO-8859XXX codesets > > for creating file names? > > Many old (and new?) applications use current character set on the > system (set through eg. LC_CTYPE, or other LC_* variables). I'd > suggest all new applications to use UTF-8.
This will mess up users who have their LC_CTYPE set to a non-UTF-8 encoding. It is weird if a user, in an application, enters a new file name "Süß", and then in a terminal, the filename appears as "Süà " (wow, it even hangs my xterm!). It is just as bad as those old Motif applications which assume that everything is ISO-8859-1. This makes these applications useless in UTF-8 locales. In summary, I'd suggest - that ALL application follow LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG, like POSIX specifies, - that users switch to UTF-8 locale when they want. Bruno -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
