Björn Persson wrote:
I use Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1). Well, so far I'm running Fedora Core 1, but
when I upgrade I'll still use Latin 1. I've got lots of text files and
filenames with non-English letters in them. No matter which operating
system system I use I'll be stuck to Latin 1 for the foreseeable future.
For filenames, a tool could be written to transcode them automatically,
but for the files' content there's *no* way for the system to know which
files would have to be transcoded and which would get destroyed if it
tried to transcode them.
Based on your response to Jeff, however, you seem to be OK with using
UTF-8 for /etc/passwd, even though non-ASCII characters would have to
be converted to ISO-8859-1.
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