Re: Accepted po-debconf 0.2.2 (all source)
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 02:35:33 -0400
Glenn Maynard <g_deb@zewt.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 02:50:01PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > > Well, I didn't know that debconf already supported translations and didn't
> > > use utf-8, that's really too bad.
> >
> > Yeah that's too bad that you didn't know.
>
> *groan*
>
> > In my impression we already have an almost fully-translated debconf templates for Debian 3.0,
> > and it's working (unless you set your locale to something other than the language-default,
> > such as trying to use UTF-8)
>
> In other words, it's partially working. Not honoring the locale's
> encoding isn't a small problem.
Yes, but it is somewhat working.
We have faced a problem when trying to use a second charset for
a specific language, like in the "second-stage installer for boot-floppies"
problem.
>
> You still seem to have said that UTF-8 is also not suitable because of
> round-trip problems.
I am not saying that here.
> (You said it's not a "one-to-one match", but never
> elaborated.)
A character in Unicode may map several characters in different languages.
Which is orthogonal to round-trip-convertion problem which is discussed.
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