Re: Stupid quoting...

From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Jun 24, 2007, 11:14 UTC
Message-ID: <200706241314.46238.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070624065008.GA6979@efreet.light.src>

söndag 24 juni 2007 skrev Jan Hudec:

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> IMHO it should be the default even for email format. Most projects that use
> non-ascii filenames probably have all members using same locale. And for
> such group, it will just work. Also usually the file names, content and
> commit messages will usually be in the same (though project-specific)
> encoding, so if charset in content-type is set to that, people with

different

> locale able to represent the same characters will still see the names
> correctly. For other people, the MUA will probably print some escape anyway
> (it will not screw up the terminal -- it usually knows what it can safely
> pass to it).

I can't talk about "most" here, only local conditions, i.e. northern Europe where both the legacy ISO encodings are very common with a steady increase in UTF-8 usage, in the Linux community. People using OSS in windows almost exclusively get the windows-1252 (for most practical purposes the same as ISO-8859-1).

Even a *very* small set of random people you will wind up with people having different locales.

-- robin