-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 6/5/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm in Canada speaking and writing English with a off-the-shelf North >> American computer with a standard US keyboard. >> >> Up until etch, lang was C and nothing was UTF. What are the advantages >> to me of etch setting a default language en_CA.UTF-8 and other locale >> settings? What are the disadvantages? > > The advantages are that UTF-8 can handle all characters in Unicode, > not just ASCII. That might not be to big a deal for your situation, but > it can still be somewhat useful. For example, you might happen to > download a file with characters from outside the ASCII range. > > The other advantage is that everything that isn't UTF-8 already is moving > towards it. Sooner or later you'll probably have very little choice about > using it. > > I don't know of any major disadvantages, and I know of only a few minor > disadvantages such as the issue you mention below. >
Things could be easy for English speaking people, since UTF-8 is fully compatible with ASCII. However, for people that do not speak English, for example CJK people, using UTF-8 may mean not compatible with others that use legacy character encodings. - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGZkUQCIqXQV6BF28RAi01AKCgQPxTqX3UcVuVU4NJ3fzMTsCisACggLO9 DV7/1iwAkiCPyhlMxrJ1bss= =3uIW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
