plans for long term support releases?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 23:10:14 +0100,
  Ola Thoresen <redhat at olen.net> wrote:
> 
> One of the worst examples of this is the change to UTF-8 as default 
> charset.  I am a devoted UTF-8 user myself, but it is probably the 
> single change that has caused most pain for others, and it is stil 
> causing trouble.  When we changed to UTF-8 as default, there were no 
> easy way to convert filesystems, documents, text-files, webpages...
> The first thing almost everyone I know that are installing Fedora, 
> Redhat or Suse is doing is to change /etc/sysconfig/i18n to go back to 
> en_US as default LANG. Simply because it takes a h... of a lot of work 
> to convert all your files and applications and there are no good tools 
> out there to help you.

UTF-8 is an encoding and en_US is a locale. You are comparing different
types of things. Perhaps you meant that UTF-8 was being used instead of
ASCII or Latin 1? Note that ASCII is in a sense a subset of UTF-8, so
converting from ASCII to UTF-8 isn't a big deal.