Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 02, 2007 05:26 PM
are there, as soon as you move off 7-bit universe centrum and off into 8-bit, multi-charset world.
E.g. to more or less work with RAR archives encapsulating Cyrillic file and directory names, one is limited to e.g. ru_RU.CP1251 locale (which cuts off most GTK2 software, taking into account GTK developers brain damage regarding 8-bit locales and the simple fact that "it's not gonna work" in UTF8 without considerable footwork -- which is not being done with any GUIs I know of).
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 02, 2007 05:26 PME.g. to more or less work with RAR archives encapsulating Cyrillic file and directory names, one is limited to e.g. ru_RU.CP1251 locale (which cuts off most GTK2 software, taking into account GTK developers brain damage regarding 8-bit locales and the simple fact that "it's not gonna work" in UTF8 without considerable footwork -- which is not being done with any GUIs I know of).
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