UTF-8 / German, Scandinavian letters - is it really this difficult?? Linux & Windows XP

[Paul Boddie]

"Serge Orlov" <Serge.Orlov at gmail.com> wrote in message news:<1109090264.676680.99150 at o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>...
> Paul Boddie wrote:
> > Anyone who has needed to expose filesystems
> > created by Linux distributions before the UTF-8 "big push" to later
> > distributions can attest to the fact that the "see no evil" brass
> > monkey is wearing a T-shirt with "UTF-8" written on it.
> 
> Unfortunately the monkey is painted in the air with a stick, so
> not everyone can see it. Python can't. Given a random linux system
> how can you tell if the monkey has pushed it already or not?

That's a good question. See this article for an example of the
frustration caused:

http://groups.google.no/groups?selm=b1npav%24cci%241%40slb6.atl.mindspring.net&output=gplain

Paul