On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 08:38:05 +0100,
Ola Thoresen <redhat(a)olen.net> wrote:
The point is that everyone who has used linux since before the switch to
utf8 has lots of files in latin-1 (for instance) encoding. Filesystems
with filenames with latin-1 characters (not only ascii), we have old
servers with OSes that does not use utf8 that we need to connect to and
so on.
I don't believe that. This may affect some users, but it is hardly everyone.
Most US users are going to just be using the ASCII subset of Latin 1. They
may have a few saved email messages with some nonascii characters, but those
will probably be saved in mail folders where the proper encoding is also
saved. I wouldn't expect nonASCII characters in filenames or most text files.
I guess the problem is much bigger in Europe than in many other
places,
as we have a love for all kinds of different characters - and many
people also use them in their filenames and passwords.
That is what I would have expected.