Re: UTF8 (Was: [PATCH] replace 0xA0 to whitespace in plain text files (part 2))

[Love Hörnquist Åstrand <lha%kth.se@localhost>]

12 sep 2008 kl. 16.23 skrev der Mouse:

> > ...which brings up the question if NetBSD shouldn't go UTF8 anyway?
>
> Depends.  Go to UTF-8 for what?
>
> One of the biggest problems is that there are a whole lot of places
> where NetBSD - and Unix more generally - has traditionally not used
> character streams, instead using byte streams - characters are
> converted to octets very early on input and converted back very late  
> on
> output; very nearly everything works with octet streams, not character
> streams.

Staying latin1 or ascii is not an option IMO, so the answer is then go  
UTF-8 for everything, not at once, but where its needed.

I'll start with Kerberos, what do you start with ?

Love