Re: Red Hat 8 now uses UTF-8 by default for all non-CJK users

[Yann Dirson <ydirson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 08:59:02PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote:
>   - CJK users have already had multi-byte encodings with which they are
>     happy, therefore they have far less pressure to move away from the
>     traditional schemes than users of European, African, etc.
>     languages with their traditional single-byte charset mess.

Well, don't them have their own mess with their multibyte charsets,
the same way we have ?  I thought there were a couple of encodings for
chinese, for example (big5, etc.) ?

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