Bug#143941: define a usable character set for description/maintainer name etc.
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> cum veritate scripsit:
Hello,
> Can the debian packaging tools handle UTF-8 characters? Would
> apt-cache show be able to display the description for the package on
> the console or in a xterm? As far as I know, UTF-8 is not as
> widespread as one would hope.
The benefit of UTF-8 is that it does not break existing software.
It won't be displayed correctly on current xterm, but
uxterm can display it.
It would be nice to have apt-cache etc. support character set
conversion, but it is not absolutely required.
> If that is the case, we should defer this move until after
> better UTF adaption. (I don't know -- I use en_US.UTF-8, but I have
> no idea what this change would entail for other locales).
I think it is better to define a usable set of characters,
than leave it as it is. The current situation is undesirable in that
some maintainers are putting in random latin-1 characters,
which does break in other locales.
regards,
junichi
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