UTF-8 locale (was: Strange bug in QSvgRenderer and KDE)

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 07.07.07 14:14:32, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 10:56:34AM +0200, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > Chusslove Illich wrote:
> > >> So any idea how to check user has not a LC_ALL set and warn him?
> > >
> > > I'd say not really needed. The user is in a lot of other similar
> > > trouble anyway if his locale is not UTF-8 ready, so KDE needs not
> > > lul him. The sooner the user feels the problem, the better. Or, to
> > > put it more friendly, distributions should make sure UTF-8 locale is
> > > used by default.
> > 
> > KDE 4 will not work properly in non UTF-8 locales.
> > 
> > Therefore, all users need to switch to UTF-8.
> > 
> what kind of bad joke is this? do you realize *how* much utf8-incapable
> software is out there and in actual use? i tried switching to utf8 twice
> in recent years. forget it.

I'm working in utf-8 only since about 4 years now and did not come
across any major problems. Of course I'm not represenatative because I
mainly use KDE apps.

Andreas

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