Re: Stupid quoting...

[Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>]

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On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 13:14:45 +0200, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> söndag 24 juni 2007 skrev Jan Hudec:
> > IMHO it should be the default even for email format. Most projects that use
> > non-ascii filenames probably have all members using same locale. And for
> > such group, it will just work. Also usually the file names, content and
> > commit messages will usually be in the same (though project-specific)
> > encoding, so if charset in content-type is set to that, people with 
> different
> > locale able to represent the same characters will still see the names
> > correctly. For other people, the MUA will probably print some escape anyway
> > (it will not screw up the terminal -- it usually knows what it can safely
> > pass to it).
> 
> I can't talk about "most" here, only local conditions, i.e. northern Europe 
> where both the legacy ISO encodings are very common with a steady increase in 
> UTF-8 usage, in the Linux community. People using OSS in windows almost 
> exclusively get the windows-1252 (for most practical purposes the same as 
> ISO-8859-1).
> 
> Even a *very* small set of random people you will wind up with people having 
> different locales.

A small set of *random* people will likely have different locales. But
a project that would use non-ascii filenames would probably use some
particular language and thus be run by people that all speak that language --
which means they are not random at all and probably will use the same locale.

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>

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