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

[Radovan Garabik <garabik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 06:39:27PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> Radovan Garabik wrote on 2002-11-26 18:19 UTC:
> > 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
> 
> What were the main complaints?
> 
> Was the lack of support for UTF-8 locales in some popular email clients
> the biggest obstacle?

No. I do not even remebmer email clients being mentioned.
The main complaints were: "Czech/Slovak keyboard stopped
working at the console", "I managed somehow to make
Czech/Slovak console keyboard to work, but dead keys are not 
working", "I cannot see diacritics in my text documents which
were fine under RH7.2", "Printing from application XXX
messes up diacritics", "Application YYY worked fine with
diacritics in RH7.2 and does not work now" etc...
Mostly these were clueless users, I suspect those less
clueless knew what is the matter and switched the locale
by themselves.


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