[Python-3000] Help on text editors

[Paul Prescod]

Are you plugged into the Mandriva community? Is there any debate about the
continued use of iso8859-15? Obviously it has the benefit of backwards
compatibility and slightly smaller file sizes. But it also has very severe
limitations and interoperability problems as you describe below.

On 9/7/06, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Le jeudi 07 septembre 2006 à 12:21 -0700, Paul Prescod a écrit :
> > If you have access to "German Windows XP", "Japanese Windows XP",
> > "Spanish OS X",  "Japanese OS X", "German Ubuntu" etc., I would
> > appreciate answers to the following questions.
>
> French Mandriva (up-to-date development version).
>
> > In particular: what is your default encoding and how did your
> > operating system determine it?
>
> My locale is named "fr_FR" and the encoding is iso-8859-15.
>
> > Did you install a locale-specific version? Did the installer ask you?
>
> No, it's the built-in config. I don't remember the installer asking me
> anything except the language and keyboard layout.
>
> > What is the relationship between your localization of Gnome/KDE and
> > your default encoding?
>
> Ok, I hexdump'ed a few .mo files (the gettext-compatible files which
> contain translation strings) and the result is a bit funny:
> Gnome/KDE .mo files use utf-8, while .mo files for various command-line
> tools (e.g. aspell) use iso-8859-15.
>
> Also, it is interesting to know that Gnome tools like gedit (the Gnome
> text editor) normally default to utf-8, however gedit was patched by
> Mandriva to use the system encoding by default (which breaks character
> set auto-detection because the Mandriva patch is awful :
> http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20277).
>
>
> By the way, you should be aware that filesystems have their own
> encodings which can different from the default system encoding
> (depending on how it's declared in /etc/fstab). I don't know of a simple
> way to retrieve the encoding for a given directory (except trying to
> find out the filesystem mounting point and parsing /etc/fstab...
> *sigh*). This can be annoying when handling non-ascii filenames.
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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