On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 12:00, Hideki Hiura wrote: > > From: Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@xxxxxxx> > > Anyone knows how to tweak this parameter to say iso8859-1 via a proc or > > a sysconfig interface/file? > > Does the change actually make a difference? > > It probably depend on application...modern toolkits such as gtk+ use > UTF-8 as internal encoding so changing external encoding from UTF-8 to > iso8859-1 actually add extra step to convert UTF-8 to/from iso8859-1 > upon I/O. Well... then tell me this.. how come FC2 seems(IS) slower compared to my original RH9 install. I was using iso8859-1 then and utf8 now. I remember reading that that's one reason why it was slow, so I'm just giving it a shot. I've just rebooted my notebook and I'll see how things goes with en_us. (for some reason gkrellm was hanging/sucking up my processor)
