dropping the defaults-fat-utf8 patch

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Tue Oct 28 20:16:33 UTC 2008


On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 04:09:35PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
 > I think upstream is trying to tell us something here: we shouldn't default to utf8.
 > 
 > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=8d44d9741f6808c107a144f469fb89e6fe7c55e3
 
I hate that patch (the defaults-fat-utf8 one).
It's been shown that it screws over people using non-utf8 locales.
It also makes us different in behaviour to every other distro.

+1 for dropping it.

	Dave

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