Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:22:08 +0300 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments |
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:15:12AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > Willy Tarreau wrote: >... >> It's too easy to impose crappy designs to end-users and tell them that if >> that does not work they have to file a bug. There are a minimal set of >> things that must be tested before shipping. Seeing that the default >> terminal emulator in KDE on Mandriva 2008 is configured in UTF-8 and does >> not properly render it simply makes me sick. This is broken by design and >> even distros trying to get it working for years still can't cope with it. >> There must be a reason. >> > Yeah, ascii-only is a crappy design. :-/ I don't know if mandriva is > broken by design - I only use debian. > It would not surprise me if some distros botch utf-8 through negligence. > They are based in english-speaking countries and have their biggest > user bases there - the majority of their customers aren't going to use > more than > ascii so why should they bother.
Mandriva is a French company.
And what Willy describes really sounds like someone fiddling with some settings (or something like accidentally selecting some non UTF-8 locale).
Bad things can happen when you somehow get charsets mixed, but distributions default to UTF-8 for quite some time, and problems with a 100% UTF-8 system have therefore become were unlikely.
>... > Helge Hafting
cu Adrian
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