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On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 12:32 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 28 February 2006 11:58, Patrick Lauer wrote: |
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> > During that discussion we realized that having utf-8 not enabled by |
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> > default and no utf8 fonts available by default causes lots of |
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> > recompilation and reconfiguration. |
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> At the same time, you'll probably hear people bitching about UTF-8 being |
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> enabled because "it's not needed for me, should be the rest of the world to |
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> change".... |
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It is still optional, just enabled by default :-) |
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All the people with non-ASCII charsets will have less work, only that we |
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switch the load from, say, 75% of the users fixing their environment to |
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25% of users having to switch. |
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And who doesn't want UTF-8? Just being able to see a Japanese Website as |
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it was intended (even if I can't read it) is a nice feature. |
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So - apart from some users maybe not wanting it, any technical reasons |
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against? |
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> I'd be the first to be interested in having it enabled by default, tho. |
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Yes, otherwise spelling your name is almost impossible :-) |
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Patrick |
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Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move |
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