Re: Quotation marks: Using =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9C=E2=80=9D?= instead of ""



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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