[H-GEN] UTF-8 vs ISO-8859-1

Stephen Thorne stephen.thorne at gmail.com
Fri Jun 23 01:21:34 EDT 2006


On 6/23/06, Ted Percival <ted at midg3t.net> wrote:
> Eh. Maybe the list of locales is a low-priority question. Try
> `dpkg-reconfigure -plow locales` or just add the following to
> /etc/locale.gen:
>
> en_AU ISO-8859-1

Is there a good reason to not use UTF-8?

Isn't it better to repair the applications that don't support it properly?

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Stephen Thorne

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