Re: Debian UTF-8 support state ?

["Edward H. Trager" <ehtrager@xxxxxxxxx>]

DEBIAN:
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I too would like to know the answer to this UTF-8 question
about Debian! (See original email below).

MANDRAKE:
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And does anyone know the official story about Mandrake?
I installed Mandrake 10.0 (from a magazine disc) and got
an ISO-8859-1 locale instead of a UTF-8 locale.  The Mandrake
locale-setting GUI continued to provide only legacy ISO options,
as far as I could tell.  In the end I manually set the .i18n
file to en_US.UTF-8 and everything seems to work to the extent that
I have tested it.  So why is UTF-8 not the default?  Does anyone know?

APACHE:
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The last time I installed Apache 2.0.x, it too defaults to the
legacy ISO-8859-1 configuration.  One has to manually change the configuration
file in order to get HTML pages served with the correct headers
indicating UTF-8.

Does anyone know if this is still the case?  When is this going to change?
Apache 2.0.x should really default to UTF-8.  Do people agree with me here?
 
 - Edward H. Trager
   Bioinformatics
   Kellogg Eye Center
   Univ. of Michigan
   Ann Arbor, MI, USA

On Monday 2004.10.11 15:58:56 +0200, xerces8 wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> What is the state of UTF-8 on debian ?
> I installed 'sarge' and see, the UTF-8 is not the default locale.
> Can I safely set UTF-8 ? Will it work ?
> 
> Thanks for any answers,
> David
> 
> P.S.: Sorry for the double post on debian-testing, I misspelled the
> linux-utf8 address in the first try.
> 
> 
> --
> Linux-UTF8:   i18n of Linux on all levels
> Archive:      http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
> 
> 
> 

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Linux-UTF8:   i18n of Linux on all levels
Archive:      http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/