On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 23:10:14 +0100,
Ola Thoresen <redhat(a)olen.net> wrote:
One of the worst examples of this is the change to UTF-8 as default
charset. I am a devoted UTF-8 user myself, but it is probably the
single change that has caused most pain for others, and it is stil
causing trouble. When we changed to UTF-8 as default, there were no
easy way to convert filesystems, documents, text-files, webpages...
The first thing almost everyone I know that are installing Fedora,
Redhat or Suse is doing is to change /etc/sysconfig/i18n to go back to
en_US as default LANG. Simply because it takes a h... of a lot of work
to convert all your files and applications and there are no good tools
out there to help you.
UTF-8 is an encoding and en_US is a locale. You are comparing different
types of things. Perhaps you meant that UTF-8 was being used instead of
ASCII or Latin 1? Note that ASCII is in a sense a subset of UTF-8, so
converting from ASCII to UTF-8 isn't a big deal.