Hi,
I use pt_BR.ISO-8859-1 as default on RHL9 nd FC1 with no problems. In fact,
many apps (specialy console ones and Acrobat Reader) only work correctly with
this, not with UTF-8.
It looks like many message files for GNU gettext (or similar ones) were not
updated for UTF-8.
[]s, Fernando Lozano
> Argh! ={ Didn't think about it... well, I usually don't use accents on
> file names, but this of course doesn't mean I won't run into probls.
>
> So, the conclusion is that UTF-8 support for i18n still needs a lot of
> work to correctly support some Latin languages (at least Portuguese and
> Spanish, from what I've been reading on this forum). Or am I missing
> something?
>
> Does anyone here knows if using ISO-8859-1 as default locale (instead of
> UTF-8) is dangerous in anyway to ext[23]?
>
> Best,
>
> Andre
>
> On 01 Dec 2003 13:22:47 -0200
> Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Dec 1, 2003, Andre Costa <acosta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Now all seems to work just fine (of course, I lost UTF-8 support,
> > > but that doesn't seem to be a probl at the moment).
> >
> > Note that switching to a non-UTF-8 environment doesn't make you exempt
> > from the requirement that filenames in ext[23] must be in UTF-8 form.
> > I don't know what kind of problems you can run into for not meeting
> > this requirement.
> >
> > --
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>
>
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