On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 04:09:35PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:

I think upstream is trying to tell us something here: we shouldn't default to utf8.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdif...

I hate that patch (the defaults-fat-utf8 one). It's been shown that it screws over people using non-utf8 locales. It also makes us different in behaviour to every other distro.

+1 for dropping it.

Dave