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<para>UTF-8 based locales are not supported well by many programs. E.g., the
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<command>watch</command> program displays only ASCII characters in UTF-8
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locales and has no such restriction in traditional 8-bit locales like en_US.
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- Without patches and/or installing software beyond BLFS, in UTF-8 based locales
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- you will not be able to do such basic tasks as printing plain-text files from
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- the command line, recording Windows-readable CDs with filenames containing
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- non-ASCII characters, viewing ID3v1 tags in MP3 files and so on. Work is in
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- progress to document and, if possible, fix such problems, see
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- <ulink url="&blfs-root;view/svn/introduction/locale-issues.html"/>.
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- It is, however, safe to use UTF-8 based locales if you are going to use only
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- KDE or GNOME and never open the terminal.</para>
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- <!-- All abovementioned problems except "watch" have a known fix beyond BLFS -->
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+ Work is in progress to document and, if possible, fix such problems, see
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+ <ulink url="&blfs-root;view/svn/introduction/locale-issues.html"/>.</para>
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</sect1>
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