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[PLUG] Re: UTF-8, Second Opinion
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On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 10:42:26AM -0500, Jeff Weisberg wrote:
> > I can't go as far as to call it "good", lots of software have
> > bugs handling utf-8, but overall, I do think it is "less bad"
> > than any of the alternatives.
>
> You can pry my LANG=C from my cold dead hands.
+1000000
There is still too much software that is borked wrt utf-8. If you can
live with the screwed up display and stuff generally being occasionally
broken for no apparent reason then go for it.
Not on my machines you don't.
HTH,
Tom
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