Tom Horsley wrote: > 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. I hope you are reporting these problems you are seeing to the developers. Nothing will get fixed if programmers don't see the error of their ways. FWIW, I've never had a program abort or segfault based on these settings. And I've been working in a UTF8 world now for years. Can you give an example of a program that exhibits this characteristic? I would certainly like to try and reproduce the errors. Ed -- The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth. -- Bene Gesserit Precept
