Re: Quotation marks: Using =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9C=E2=80=9D?= instead of ""
- From: Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>
- To: Dan Winship <danw gnome org>
- Cc: Wouter Bolsterlee <uws+gnome xs4all nl>, desktop-devel-list gnome org, Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>
- Subject: Re: Quotation marks: Using “” instead of ""
- Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:06:58 +0100
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 18:01 -0400, Dan Winship wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > GTK/Glib are not the biggest problem here. You also use C library
> > functions in Gnome applications. Glib/Gtk+ works with the C library in C
> > locale simply because ASCII is a subset of UTF-8. That ceases to work the
> > moment you introduce UTF-8 bytesequences into non utf-8 locales.
>
> Are there actually legitimate reasons for anyone to ever use a non-UTF-8
> locale these days?
Other than legacy, and wanting to find bugs in programs? Probably not...
Maybe somebody should break the compatibility view and make the C locale
UTF-8.
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