On 03/19/2013 02:38 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: >> And Fedora switched to UTF-8 by default when exactly (was it even Fedora >> or a RHL decision)? > > Red Hat Linux 8.0: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Linux I still remember how many things were broken in that moment (7.3 was considered the only usable RH for some time, and I have one machine still running it). RHL 8.0 also changed something at the font level (introduced antialias, maybe freetype?), so the entire text thing was a minefield. Anyway, that was the moment which demonstrated to me that Linux was so ahead of everyone else. I still fight today with iso88591 and cp1252 and utf16 BOMs and stupid crazy things which Windows and Java spread around, while everything in Linux always works perfectly. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
