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

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

"Dr. Werner Fink" wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 01:47:31PM +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > "Jörg Knitter" wrote:
> > >
> > > Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > > > If I ever install a Linux distro that has UTF-8 as default, I'll probably
> > > > do the same ;-)
> > >
> > > If I see it correctly, SuSE 9.1 also seems to use UTF-8 - at least this is
> > > set per default in the Language Settings of YaST.
> >
> > It would seem so - and I find that a major PITA!
> 
> Please explain _why_ do you think so?  What is wrong
> on text like this one:
> 
> Arabic اÙ?سÙ?اÙ? عÙ?ÙSÙfÙ?
> Greek (Î*λληνικά) Î?ειά ÏfαÏ,
> Hebrew ש×?Ö¸×?×*Ö¹×?
> Japanese (æ-¥æ?¬èª?) ã??ã,?ã?«ã?¡ã?¯, ｺï¾?ï¾?ï¾?ï¾S
> Chinese (中æ-?,æ?®é?sè¯?,æ±?语) ä½ å¥½
> Cantonese (ç²µèª?,廣æ?±è©±) æ-©æ?¨, ä½ å¥½
> 
> ... no problem to read this within an UTF-8 locale ;^)
> 
>         Werner

Wow, I didn't know you speak that many languages.

I for one need only German and English.
And I would say that for the majority of German Linux users
this applies as well. Those who need different languages
can easily enable UTF support - but why should those who
really don't need it suffer from that?

Klaus