On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 13:14:45 +0200, Robin Rosenberg wrote: > söndag 24 juni 2007 skrev Jan Hudec: > > IMHO it should be the default even for email format. Most projects that use > > non-ascii filenames probably have all members using same locale. And for > > such group, it will just work. Also usually the file names, content and > > commit messages will usually be in the same (though project-specific) > > encoding, so if charset in content-type is set to that, people with > different > > locale able to represent the same characters will still see the names > > correctly. For other people, the MUA will probably print some escape anyway > > (it will not screw up the terminal -- it usually knows what it can safely > > pass to it). > > I can't talk about "most" here, only local conditions, i.e. northern Europe > where both the legacy ISO encodings are very common with a steady increase in > UTF-8 usage, in the Linux community. People using OSS in windows almost > exclusively get the windows-1252 (for most practical purposes the same as > ISO-8859-1). > > Even a *very* small set of random people you will wind up with people having > different locales. A small set of *random* people will likely have different locales. But a project that would use non-ascii filenames would probably use some particular language and thus be run by people that all speak that language -- which means they are not random at all and probably will use the same locale. -- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx>
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