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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: QString::ascii(), latin1() -> local8Bit()
From:       Alexei Dets <dets () china ! formoza ! ru>
Date:       1999-11-17 14:20:12
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Hi!
Stephan Kulow wrote:
> 
> > I think it's good to use a locale dependent conversion in a config file
> > and  system calls.
> >
> But then you're lost if you change your locale and want to read it. I
> think, in this case it's more important that you can read your config
> with a program than that you can see it in your terminal.

Oh, no!!! It is much, much better to have locale dependent text in
config file.
No problems with reading and editing of the text with _any_text_editor_.
We have here _five_ Russian encodings, but all of them are much simple
to edit than Unicode or utf-8.

	WBW, Alexei Dets

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