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Date:      Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:23:33 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        youshi10@u.washington.edu
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.org>, Neil Short <neshort@yahoo.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xorg 7.2 & environment variables set in login.conf
Message-ID:  <86sl97foze.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0706030937470.11679@hymn04.u.washington.edu> (youshi10@u.washington.edu's message of "Sun\, 3 Jun 2007 09\:37\:47 -0700 \(PDT\)")
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.43.0706030937470.11679@hymn04.u.washington.edu>

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youshi10@u.washington.edu writes:
> Stefan's absolutely right. What I would do is use en_US.UTF-8, because
> it's unicode, but depending on your platform and how much memory you
> have, representing characters in 2 bytes (unicode) vs 1 byte
> (ASCII/ISO charsets), might not be such a hip idea (thinking embedded,
> low memory machines)...

UTF-8 only uses two bytes when one isn't enough.  It is a strict
superset of ASCII.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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