Re: Stupid quoting...

From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Jun 24, 2007, 19:39 UTC
Message-ID: <200706242139.44708.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070624162559.GC6979@efreet.light.src>

söndag 24 juni 2007 skrev Jan Hudec:

> On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 13:14:45 +0200, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> > 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

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> > 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

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> > different locales.
> 
> A small set of *random* people will likely have different locales. But
> a project that would use non-ascii filenames would probably use some
> particular language and thus be run by people that all speak that

language --

> which means they are not random at all and probably will use the same

locale.

I was still in referernce to those "local conditions" at that point. It was not meant as a universal statement. Substitutute that for "A small bunch of swedish speaking people from Stockholm".

-- robin