> The original poster also mentioned 8-bit cleanliness of user commands.
> That issue is mostly orthogonal to that of locales, and I personally
> think it would be the more useful one to spend some effort on.
> 
> As a native Swedish speaker, I have to struggle daily with utilities
> like "more" which are not 8-bit clean (meaning that they are unable to
> deal with three of the letters in the alphabet), and sometimes even
> with programs that unconditionally reset my terminal to 7 bits / even
> parity (!).

Point well taken.  Unfortunately, those of us who operate within a 7 bit
world are oftentimes completely unaware of utilities that are not 8 bit
clean.  These problems must be reported if they are ever going to be
fixed. 

	--jtc