Ubuntu encodings

[Felipe Figueiredo]

On Tuesday 15 August 2006 05:15, Dieter Schicker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> maybe I don't exactly get what you mean but your view seems somehow
> western centristic to me. You might not believe it but there _are_
> actually people out there who need other encodings than latin1. For me
> it's logical that Ubuntu uses UTF-8 as default encoding because it's the
> lowest common denominator (also lowest seems the wrong term for
> UTF-8 :-)). And since we are on Linux you can easily change the default
> encoding  (and also the encoding of special applications) according to
> your needs.

I agree with Joe. I see the same bad behaviour in kubuntu's firefox (I also 
use debian etch with latin1) when seeing some portuguese sites. It chooses 
UTF8 wrongly (instead of iso88591) very often.

I wouldn't mind using UTF8 locally, if it weren't for this. From where I 
stand, UTF8 is not common denominator, it's a plain wrong denominator, since 
it scrambles all accentuated characters.

And explicitly disagreeing with you, not far away in time, iso88591 was the 
default encoding in linux. Ok, maybe quite some time, but I still see no 
reason why this should be changed _as a default_.

just my (sleepy) 2 cents
FF