Le sam 08/11/2003 à 11:21, Axel Thimm a écrit : > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 10:48:10AM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > It's sort of a virus, e.g. in Germany. One of the first things the average > > > user does after a distribution upgrade is to edit /etc/sysconfig/i18n and > > > change from UTF-8 to @euro or ISO 8859-1. > > > > Yeah, sure, sure way to kill the € symbol. > > :) That's why they are all running back to UTF-8 nowadays ;) > > I think people did that upon upgrades (from pre RH8.0 generated > filesystems?), because the existing filesystem or perhaps NFS didn't > reflect the previous filenames and the introduction of UTF-8 in RH > could have documented better how to deal with these issues. > > IIRC there wasn't any tool shipped with RH releases to migrate ext3 > partitions with latin1 filenames to UTF-8. Not too difficult to code in shell using recode as backend but I agree with you, it would have helped a lot. Now most people have mixed latin1/UTF-8 filesystem so it's a bit too late for this:( Unicode migration is our 2k bug, and it's not been handled too well till now. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot
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