UTF-8 in Hoary

Colin Watson cjwatson at canonical.com
Tue Nov 30 06:01:59 CST 2004


On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 11:53:40AM +0000, Chris Halls wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 17:13 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > First thing you should do when you upgrade to hoary is enable UTF-8 by
> > default -> and only UTF-8! :-)
> > 
> > 1. sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
> > 2. Disable all of the ISO-8859-1 locales in the list
> > 3. Enable the appropriate UTF-8 locales for the languages you use
> > 4. Choose a UTF-8 locale as the default system locale
> 
> Should this not be included in
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HoaryUpgradeNotes ?

I don't think the upgrade notes should tell you to disable your old
locales; that's a stress-test. Otherwise, yes ...

-- 
Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]



More information about the ubuntu-devel mailing list