Re: Thank God for Yudit: Linux Distros w/o UTF-8 Locales

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 10:51:53AM -0500, Edward H. Trager wrote:
> 
> On Friday 2005.02.18 13:07:51 +0000, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> > 
> > It's sad that with Debian/Ubuntu you do not get UTF-8 locales by
> > default.
> > 
> 
> The lack of UTF-8 locales by default in any modern Linux distribution
> needs to be treated as a BUG and reported to the distribution vendor in
> their Bugzilla system. 
> 
> I have been planning to do this for the latest Ubuntu (Warthog), but I haven't
> got around to it yet.
> 
> Think about it: any time any of us sees or uses a new distribution without UTF-8
> locales by default, this needs to be filed as a bug report.

Well, that is not so. for many languages it is better to run something
else than UTF-8.

Best regards
keld

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