Craig Ringer wrote:
> Frank Sweetser wrote:
>
> > Unless, of course, you're at a good sized school with lots of
> > international students, and have fileservers holding filenames created
> > on desktops running in Chinese, Turkish, Russian, and other locales.
>
> What I struggle with here is why they're not using ru_RU.UTF-8,
> cn_CN.UTF-8, etc as their locales. Why mix charsets?
On my own desktop computer, I switched from Latin1 to UTF8 some two
years ago, and I still have a mixture of file name encodings.
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