Mike FABIAN <mfabian@suse.de> writes:
(X)Emacs work OK for some subsets of UTF-8, i.e. they work good enough for the stuff I normally need (German and Japanese in UTF-8).
Yes, but with Emacs it is easily possible to break UTF-8 files using cut-and-paste under X. Emacs 21.3 and Emacs from CVS are quite good concerning UTF-8 (but I don't use CJK langauges, though).
xfig has problems in UTF-8 locales, but that is no valid reason not to use UTF-8 by default, in my opinion it is much better to start such legacy applications which do not yet have proper UTF-8 support explicitely in a legacy locale like
LC_ALL=ja_JP.eucJP xfig
until they are fixed.
Yes. This is what I do. But as long as those issues are not solved, we must not switch to UTF-8 by default. -- Linux frechet 2.4.20-4GB #1 Tue Apr 8 13:00:26 UTC 2003 i686 GNU/Linux 3:21pm up 95 days 7:01, 20 users, load average: 0.20, 0.59, 0.36 work : ke@suse.de Karl Eichwalder home : keichwa@gmx.net