[vdr] Re: [PATCH] fix segfaults because of channels with umlauts

["Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de>]

On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 11:37:19AM +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> "Dr. Werner Fink" wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 02:13:55PM +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > >
> > > Well, there haven't been any "other errors" in years, its just that nasty
> > > UTF-8 that some distributions now apparently have made the default. Personally
> > > I don't see why my system should use UTF-8. I am German, all right, but iso8859-1
> > > works just fine for me, so no need for the hassle with those two-byte characters.
> > 
> > Hmmm ... UTF-8 is the future even if you don't like it. Btw: I also
> > do not like UTF-8 but nevertheless I've accepted that UTF-8 is the
> > future and the way where Linux and all other UNICES will go.  You
> > shouldn't miss the future ;^)
> 
> Well, as long as iso8859-X works for me, I'll leave it that way.
> Not everything that people say is "the future" needs to be necessarily good.
> My systems will be UTF-8-free as long as posible ;-)

What is wrong on internationalization, that means that you can mix even
Japanese and Chinese with German, French and Russian text together?
What is wrong with a VDR program which uses gettext and is able to
be read from everyone everywhere?

> 
> > Beside this you may have a look into the manual page of iconv
> > glibc library function (iconv - perform character set conversion).
> 
> That's a monster function I can gladly live without.


        Werner

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