Re: false configuration for utf8

Thomas Wiegner <[email protected]> Thu, 24 Oct 2013 17:57:58 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
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Message-ID <20131024155758.GA5584@echo>
* Martin Trautmann ([email protected]) wrote [Wed, 131023 17:36]:

> > | commit 6058b1c06d85630ca3b2c5370c1b77cb21782c83
> > | Author: jedsoft <jedsoft@b66dfc27-5e3b-0410-ac45-e82dab92a7d9>
> > | Date:   Sat Oct 2 22:49:06 2010 +0000

> > |     slrn pre1.0.0 changes 25-26
> > |     25. doc/slrn.rc: "utf8" changed to "utf-8" (Thomas Wiegner).

> So both should be ok!?

No. You should use utf-8, applications using iconv for conversion will
probably have no problem with utf8 (you can check with iconv -l), 
but other programs might not work.

Anyway it look like this is now fixed in debian:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=614004

Cheers,

 Thomas

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