On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 10:09:06AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Christian Perrier
> | > Again, do not mess with cultures you do not understand. > | > | Do you have real examples? > IRC. An example is the current irssi in Debian which doesn't do > recoding between different locales. (And that is needed, since IRC > doesn't have a charset concept and there are still loads and loads of > users out there with clients which interpret everything as Latin1.) I'm not clear how this is an argument against UTF-8 by default...? The charset of your terminal is orthogonal to the charset you're talking on the IRC network with to my mind, since even the built-in recode support lets you set a default charset for IRC traffic. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 8th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from I wonder?" -- Capt. Jack Sparrow, "Pirates of the Caribbean" This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. -----------------------------------------------------------
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