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

[Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@xxxxxxxx>]

Radovan Garabik <garabik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> > There has been suprisingly little user disastification, for one
> > reason or the other. Not sure why exactly. US-centric user base?
> > Techie user base that uses English anyways? Easy enough to switch 
> > back?
> 
> This one probably. Shortly after the new Redhat came out,
> cz.comp.linux has been flooded by users asking "How
> the f*ck can I turn this off". So I suspect eveyone
> who was dissatisfied has already switched back to
> ISO-8859-2 locale

Let's hope there were also a few people who bothered to report
specific bugs so that they can be fixed!

Here's one bug I saw:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mutt-dev/message/16606

Mutt was working nicely in UTF-8, but Mutt invokes an external editor,
in this case Emacs, and apparently Emacs was not respecting the
locale. There might have been something in the user's .emacs that
caused this, but could someone please check that with Red Hat 8.0
emacs will by default create a UTF-8 file when invoked from a UTF-8
locale?

Edmund
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