Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4)

From: Alan
Date: Mon Jan 08 2007 - 05:33:47 EST


> (case in point: Russel's system. I was ROTFL when he proudly announced he
> was running a full iso-8859-1 system after dissing UTF-8. Last I've seen
> the official 8bit EU encoding was iso-8859-15, and UK is part of the EU)

There is no correct UK encoding. You need -14 or -15 depending upon
language and can come horribly unstuck the moment a name is involved.

Alan
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