On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> Bart,
>
> Thanks for the tip! I know it was directed to someone else, but I'd
> been having the same problem, and it's nice to see it cleared up now.
>
> I can't help but wonder, though, what the purpose was of changing the
> default LANG to UFT8 is. It obviously has something to do with
> internationalization, so I wonder if changing the LANG values to C will
> break certain features?
Back in October, Havoc Pennington wrote to psyche-list:
>Robert Claeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I noticed that Unicode UTF-8 is now the default encoding when most
>> Western Europeans locales are selected. Since some ISO 8859 character
>> set is usually the norm for those locales, I would be interested in the
>> rationale behind Psyche using UTF-8 rather than ISO 8859.
>>
>
>The reasons for Unicode include:
>
> - so you can use multiple languages at once in a document
>
> - so that programs can write a single generic algorithm
> for say word breaking, instead of special-casing each
> locale
>
> - because most of the modern apps (all Qt, GTK apps, most scripting
> languages, etc.) are using Unicode internally, so using it
> externally speeds things up
>
> - so that Chinese/Japanese/Korean are going through the same
> codepaths as European languages, so that there are fewer
> CJK-specific issues. (Of course we don't default to UTF-8 for CJK
> yet, but it's coming.)
>
> - because the filesystem needs to be in UTF-8 unless all users
> of a system are using the same language exclusively
>
>FWIW, the issues people are seeing with UTF-8 are almost all things
>that Asian users have been living with for years... now everyone's in
>the same boat, let's patch the leaks. ;-)
>
>Havoc
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