| From: Niall O Broin <niall at linux.ie>
| Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:00:35 +0000
|
| Damn, but this whole area is a minefield. [ ... ]
<<<giggles>>> yep. I believe the thinking nowadays
of the real experts is it is a mistake for the locale
to specify the encoding, and every locale should just
use UTF-8 (the Plan 9 approach).
cheers!
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