[vdr] Re: [PATCH] fix segfaults because of channels with umlauts

["Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de>]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 02:05:19PM +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> "Dr. Werner Fink" wrote:
> > Please explain _why_ do you think so?  What is wrong
> >
> > on text like this one:
> > 
> > Arabic اÙ?سÙ?اÙ? عÙ?ÙSÙfÙ?
> > Greek (Î*λληνικά) Î?ειά ÏfαÏ,
> > Hebrew ש×?Ö¸×?×*Ö¹×?
> > Japanese (æ-¥æ?¬èª?) ã??ã,?ã?«ã?¡ã?¯, ｺï¾?ï¾?ï¾?ï¾S
> > Chinese (中æ-?,æ?®é?sè¯?,æ±?语) ä½ å¥½
> > Cantonese (ç²µèª?,廣æ?±è©±) æ-©æ?¨, ä½ å¥½
> > 
> > ... no problem to read this within an UTF-8 locale ;^)
> > 
> >         Werner
> 
> Wow, I didn't know you speak that many languages.
> 
> I for one need only German and English.
> And I would say that for the majority of German Linux users
> this applies as well. Those who need different languages
> can easily enable UTF support - but why should those who
> really don't need it suffer from that?

If I speak or not speak several languages is not the point.
The point is that we've many customers around which can do
this and _want_ todo so without knowledge of the internals
of the needed settings. I for my person prefer German and
English, nevertheless I know that there is no way around UTF-8 ;)

And one major problem is that it is impossible to distinguish
between e.g. iso-8859-1, iso-8859-15, iso-8859-4, and iso-8859-5.
The customer has to switch the encoding, fontset and locale
by hand if the encoding isn't known by the system.  This problem
is simply gone with full UTF-8 support.  And with the help of UTF-8
also other languages not supported by the ISO 8859 but e.g.
GB2312 or ISO 646 or ISO 2022 or ... without system knowledge for
the maybe native or not native languages. And with UTF-8 it is
very simple to support several languages in _one_ text ... e.g.
sub titles within VDR with two languages let's say German and
Czech ... even if you don't speak Czech ;^)



          Werner

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