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

[Troy Piggins]

* Stephen Thorne <stephen.thorne at gmail.com> :
> 
> 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?

Do you know how I can repair what I have?  slrn, mutt, and vim are
the main ones.

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Troy Piggins
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