Re: [tlug] Why change a linux server's locale?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull.stephen.fw@example.com>]

Darren Cook writes:

 > To put that in perspective, when summed over all their text databases
 > that can often steal enough memory and disk space to store two whole
 > scans of a faxed customer order.

Funny!

That's not the main issue, of course.  It's that they worry they're
going to have to eliminate Shift-JIS systems throughout the
organization to prevent leakage of Shift JIS (which will break
software expecting UTF-8) or accept said breakage.  Either way it
costs a lot of confusion and work time.

Steve