On 2018-04-02 08:00 +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 02/04/18 02:05, mess-mate wrote: > >howto change the system utf to eu character set ? > > Why? UTF (especially UTF-8) is vastly superior for all purposes:
I wouldn't say that. UTF-8 breaks a number of assumptions. For instance, 1) every character has the same size, 2) every byte sequence is a valid character, 3) the equality or inequality of two characters comes down to the equality or inequality of the bytes they encode to. With ASCII and the many encodings based on it, most things can be done without having knowledge of the encoding. With UTF-8, even basic operations like determining the length of a string or reporting at what column an error occurred require knowledge of the encoding. -- André Majorel <http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/> Imagine what would happen if the Debian project disclosed the email addresses of their users. Spambots would harvest them and Debian users would be inundated with spam. Good thing they don't, eh ?
