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

[Anders Magnusson <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost>]

Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:05:38AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
>> I question the premise behind "stay at latin1".
> 
> Just to feed the fire: we have files with different locales in the source
> tree, and would need to convert those properly, for example:
> 
>   src/distrib/utils/sysinst/msg.mi.pl
> 
> is ISO8859-2, AFAICT. (I forgot to commit a patch that makes sysinst switch
> to proper locale - should dig that up and discuss on tech-install)
> 
...which brings up the question if NetBSD shouldn't go UTF8 anyway?  The 
character
set are mostly annoying for us that do not have English as our native language,
and UTF8 isn't too invasive on the system.

-- Ragge