Am Sa, den 10.07.2004 schrieb Jason Aeschilman um 15:14: First, please do not hijack foreign threads! Don't reply to other list messages while you instead want to write your own new message. > Why does Red Hat 8 and later (including Fedora) default to UTF-8 character > encoding when most command line apps don't yet support it? Because UTF-8 is the future. > It took me forever to figure out why pstree and various ncurses apps would > show strange characters in place of expected characters. Mostly I'd get a > bunch of 'a circumflex' characters (â) -- the 'a with hat'. pstree here works properly, it is part of Fedora so to be expected. Can't say which ncurses applications you mean. > Is there any need at all for UTF-8 encoding for English language > installations? And why have it enabled by default if it creates problems > with command line apps? I'm sure many have seen this problem and haven't > figured it out, so hopefully this knowledge helps you. If it does, let me > know, I'm curious how many others have shared my pain. Particularly, I'd > like to know how the Fedora maintainers feel about this. Very most of all UTF-8 problems since RH8 have been solved until now. While Perl and UTF-8 on RH9 was a nightmare it meanwhile works problem free. Though there are still Perl modules out there in wildlife which have UTF-8 problems. So the developers have to be asked to fix their modules. All software shipped with Fedora Core, and I think that can be expected by Fedora Extras packages too, are UTF-8 ready. Performance "problems" might still occur in some ways, don't know whether all bugzilla reports regarding this are closed now. > J.A.K.E. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.6.6-1.435.2.3 Serendipity 15:28:14 up 2 days, 21:36, load average: 0.18, 0.18, 0.23
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