UTF-8?
Ian Malone
ibmalone at gmail.com
Fri Nov 17 01:39:18 UTC 2006
Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 07:46:54 +0800
> Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>
>> Without UTF8 that would have been quite impossible.
>
> Oh yes, that's all true, but it is also true that
> programs mysteriously abort and the backtrace
> finds them inside library routines
> with names that imply they have something to do
> with unicode encoding or lang settings processing.
>
> All those aborts stop happening when I eradicate
> UTF-8.
>
> Maybe in another decade or so everything in Linux
> will behave properly, until then, I can do without
> the mysterious segfaults.
>
I hate to be the guy who says, 'what programs'
and 'file a bug report', but the only UTF-8
related problems I've seen are with Emacs.
--
imalone
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