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Re: Re[2]: encoding of /etc/passwd
Followup to: <200111031530.fA3FUPv29163@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author: Nerijus Baliunas <nerijus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
>
> HPA>
> HPA> In practice, as all of this painfully illustrates, is that multiple
> HPA> encodings in anything but an isolated environment is ultimately
> HPA> futile. Whereas data in a lot of contexts can be labelled, stuff that
> HPA> is "around the system in general" -- may it be usernames, filenames,
> HPA> /etc/passwd, etc, are ultimately have to be encoded in the encoding
> HPA> specified by the system default locale, and the goal is for that to
> HPA> become UTF-8.
>
> Excuse me, what a mess that would create! How would you know which encoding
> /etc/passwd is in? What if you have both Japanese and Russian users on
> your system? UTF-8 is the only candidate. You can use iconv to convert
> user's input to UTF-8.
>
I told you... it has to be in the *system default* character
set/locale. In practice, UTF-8 is the only choice for multilingual
support, but there is a fair number of systems which currently use
ISO-8859-1.
-hpa
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