On 03/19/2013 02:38 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> And Fedora switched to UTF-8 by default when exactly (was it even
Fedora
> or a RHL decision)?
Red Hat Linux 8.0:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Linux
I still remember how many things were broken in that moment (7.3 was considered
the only usable RH for some time, and I have one machine still running it).
RHL 8.0 also changed something at the font level (introduced antialias, maybe
freetype?), so the entire text thing was a minefield.
Anyway, that was the moment which demonstrated to me that Linux was so ahead of
everyone else.
I still fight today with iso88591 and cp1252 and utf16 BOMs and stupid crazy things
which Windows and Java spread around, while everything in Linux always works
perfectly.
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Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it