Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> writes:
> In 1992, UTF-8 was invented.  Subsequently, most of the Internet,
> all new GNU Linux distributions etc, all UNIX GUI frameworks, Subversion
> etc standardized on UTF-8, with the eventual goal of standardizing all
> network transfer and storage to UTF-8.  I think that by now the outliers
> are the ones who need to change, otherwise these senseless encoding
> conversions will never cease.  It's not like different encodings allow for
> better expression of writings or anything useful to the end user.
> 
> As a distribution we can't force upstream to change, but just filing
> bug reports upstream would make us see where they stand on this.

I agree with this.  Reporting upstream should be a first step.

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/