Anyone using non-UTF-8 locale(s)?

[Ian Pilcher]

Björn Persson wrote:
> I use Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1). Well, so far I'm running Fedora Core 1, but
> when I upgrade I'll still use Latin 1. I've got lots of text files and
> filenames with non-English letters in them. No matter which operating
> system system I use I'll be stuck to Latin 1 for the foreseeable future.
> For filenames, a tool could be written to transcode them automatically,
> but for the files' content there's *no* way for the system to know which
> files would have to be transcoded and which would get destroyed if it
> tried to transcode them.

Based on your response to Jeff, however, you seem to be OK with using
UTF-8 for /etc/passwd, even though non-ASCII characters would have to
be converted to ISO-8859-1.

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Ian Pilcher                                        i.pilcher at comcast.net
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