Anyone using non-UTF-8 locale(s)?

[alan]

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Björn Persson wrote:

> alan wrote:
> 
> > Having a tool to do the conversion would be a good thing.  Non-utf8 
> > characters do some odd things to cd burning and nautilus, among others.
> 
> Maybe the command "iconv" is what you need?

In my case i need "batch-iconv".

> > The problem is determining what character set it really is.  If you 
> > download files from usenet or some other worldwide source, the files could 
> > be in all sorts of strange encoding.
> 
> Yes. At least HTTP, HTML, XML and MIME have the means to handle this.

Which usenet predates and ignores for the most part...

> > Almost need something to let the 
> > user say "this directory contains files in German, this one in Chinese, 
> > this one in japanese, etc.)
> 
> Being able to save the MIME type and character encoding together with 
> the file in the file system would be nice.

Please just don't suggest a forked filesystem... ]:>

> By the way, Alan, either you have a time machine or your clock is wrong. 
> NTP is there for you.

NTP should be running on this box.  Need to see what happened to it.