Hi Stephen, 2017-01-09 19:42 GMT+01:00 Stephen J. Turnbull < turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp>: > > Private sector may be up to date, but academic sector > (and from the state of e-stat.go.jp, government in general, I suspect) > is stuck in the Jomon era. >
I went to that page, checked the HTML and found: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> Admittedly, the page is in HTML 4.01, but then the Jomon era predates HTML5 by about 16,000 years, so I'll cut them some slack. Anyway, I am quite willing to believe that the situation is as dire as you describe on Windows. However, on OS X, Apple enforces UTF-8. And the Linux vendors are moving in that direction too. And the proposal under discussion is specifically about Linux So, again I am wondering if there are many people who end up with a *Linux* system which has a non-UTF-8 locale. For example, if you use the Ubuntu graphical installer, it asks for your language and then gives you the UTF-8 locale which comes with that. You have to really dive into the non-graphical configuration to get yourself a non-UTF8 locale. Stephan
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