"Arcane Jill" writes: > The obvious solution is for all Unix machines everywhere to be using the same > locale - and it > had better be UTF-8. But an instantaneous global switch-over is never going > to happen, so we see > this gradual switch-over ... and it is during this transition phase that > Lars's problem > manifests.
The only solution is (a) to use ASCII or (b) to make the switch over as quick and clean as possible. Anyone who wants to create new files in UTF-8 and leave their old files in the old encoding is asking for trouble. There's no magic bullet, and complaining here as much as you want won't help. If you're a system administrator, explain that to the people using your system, and treat stupid responses just like you would any LART-worthy response. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
