Ubuntu encodings

[Dieter Schicker]

Hi,

> 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.

What do you mean by "wrongly"? Isn't it far more often the case that
webpages are encoded wrongly or webservers are not configured properly?
I never had problems with Firefox except for pages that were not encoded
properly.

> 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_.

Can you give an argument why iso-8859-_1_ should be the default? Because
English or Romance languages are in it? Why not choose Chinese encoding
(gb18030 or iso2022cn) as  a default? Many more people speak Chinese
than Western languages ... So your decision is kinda arbitrary.

And, by the way, the Ubuntu slogan is "Linux for Human Beings" and _not_
"Linux for First World Human Beings" ...

Dieter