Re: [d-i] Extended 'Description' fields in control files

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 09:38:10AM +0200, Martin Sjögren wrote:
> I've been fiddling with Description-XYZ fields in control files, for the
> purpose of i18n in main-menu, and, well, dpkg doesn't like my UTF-8 :(
> 
> I've got this in anna/debian/control:
> 
> 
> Description: Finish setting up the Debian installer
>  anna's not nearly apt, but for the Debian installer, it will do.
> XBC-Description-sv: Färdigställ Debians installationsprogram
>  anna är inte apt på långa vägar, men för Debians installationsprogram
>  duger det.
> 
> but when the package has been built, dpkg-deb -I says this:
> 
>  Description: Finish setting up the Debian installer
>   anna's not nearly apt, but for the Debian installer, it will do.
>  description-sv: Färdigställ Debians installationsprogram
>   anna är inte apt på långa vägar, men för Debians
> installationsprogram
>   duger det.

Hmmm, dpkg should output Description-sv and not description-sv,
is {c,}debconf able to deal with the latter?

> sure, still valid UTF-8, but it's UTF-8 for what the UTF-8 is if
> interpreted according to Latin1. I thought dpkg didn't assume anything
> at all about the encoding in control files? That it expected us-ascii
> and damn everyone who didn't follow that. Can I fix this somehow, or are
> we doomed to having several encodings in the file because we can't do
> UTF-8?

I am unable to reproduce this problem, it works for me.

Denis