Дамјан Георгиевски gdamjan at gmail.com
Sat Dec 13 23:01:58 EST 2008

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> In a nutshell, this is likely to cause pain until all file systems are
> standardized on a particular encoding of Unicode. Probably only about
> another fifteen years to go ...

well, most Linux distros are defaulting to a UTF-8 locale now, the
exception beeing Gentoo&similar that expect the user to know what to
configure - which he often doesn't :) 

but, yes, there's no way of enforcing that.

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дамјан ( http://softver.org.mk/damjan/ )

... knowledge is exactly like power - something 
to be distributed as widely as humanly possible,
for the betterment of all. -- jd

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