Apologies for chipping in. I've followed the discussion and find it quite interesting. On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 14:58, Mike FABIAN wrote:
We have bug reports concerning cut and paste problems for (X)Emacs in de_DE@euro as well. Overall I think that (X)Emacs work at least as good in de_DE.UTF-8 as they work in de_DE@euro already.
If the major applications people use work as well in UTF8 as they do in 'normal' locales, there is nothing really stopping a change-over, is there?
If we wait until all old applications are fixed for UTF-8 we will never be able to switch.
If the official line would be that the switch happens when all applications are ready, you can give up ever changing over right now. If the official line is to change at soonest convenient and technically feasible point, then the time is probably here to change over right now.
And the benefits of switching are far greater than the disadvantages.
Ack 100%.
Starting such an old application like xfig with a wrapper script is a minor inconvenience. And there are not many of such applications left which are still commonly used anyway.
The few that exists should not be a show-stopper.
Not using UTF-8 when trying to use several non-English languages is a terrible mess.
Is there a time-line for enabling UTF8 in SuSE as the default locale,
like is it scheduled for the next version or the one after that? (8.3 or
9.0?)
Regards,
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Anders Karlsson