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

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

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 السلام عليكم
Greek (Ελληνικά) Γειά σας
Hebrew שָׁלוֹם
Japanese (日本語) こんにちは, ｺﾝﾆﾁﾊ
Chinese (中文,普通话,汉语) ä½ å¥½
Cantonese (粵語,廣東話) 早晨, ä½ å¥½

... no problem to read this within an UTF-8 locale ;^)


        Werner

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