From: D. Starner (shalesller@writeme.com)
Date: Wed Dec 15 2004 - 05:51:19 CST
"Arcane Jill" writes:
> The obvious solution is for all Unix machines everywhere to be using the same locale - and it
> had better be UTF-8. But an instantaneous global switch-over is never going to happen, so we see
> this gradual switch-over ... and it is during this transition phase that Lars's problem
> manifests.
The only solution is (a) to use ASCII or (b) to make the switch over as quick
and clean as possible. Anyone who wants to create new files in UTF-8 and leave
their old files in the old encoding is asking for trouble. There's no magic
bullet, and complaining here as much as you want won't help. If you're a
system administrator, explain that to the people using your system, and
treat stupid responses just like you would any LART-worthy response.
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