On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 23:10:14 +0100, Ola Thoresen <redhat@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > One of the worst examples of this is the change to UTF-8 as default > charset. I am a devoted UTF-8 user myself, but it is probably the > single change that has caused most pain for others, and it is stil > causing trouble. When we changed to UTF-8 as default, there were no > easy way to convert filesystems, documents, text-files, webpages... > The first thing almost everyone I know that are installing Fedora, > Redhat or Suse is doing is to change /etc/sysconfig/i18n to go back to > en_US as default LANG. Simply because it takes a h... of a lot of work > to convert all your files and applications and there are no good tools > out there to help you. UTF-8 is an encoding and en_US is a locale. You are comparing different types of things. Perhaps you meant that UTF-8 was being used instead of ASCII or Latin 1? Note that ASCII is in a sense a subset of UTF-8, so converting from ASCII to UTF-8 isn't a big deal. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
