On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 07:46:54 +0800 Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Without UTF8 that would have been quite impossible. Oh yes, that's all true, but it is also true that programs mysteriously abort and the backtrace finds them inside library routines with names that imply they have something to do with unicode encoding or lang settings processing. All those aborts stop happening when I eradicate UTF-8. Maybe in another decade or so everything in Linux will behave properly, until then, I can do without the mysterious segfaults.