Re: Debian menu encoding support

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

> Bill Allombert wrote:
> > For ISO-8859-1, outputencoding="ISO-8859-1"
> >
> > There is a special encoding "LOCALE", which refers to the current locale
> > encoding.
> 
> Won't this make the menu-method not work with versions of menu prior to
> 2.1.9-1? Packages would need to update their depends or conflicts with
> menu to ensure a new enough version is installed. Otherwise it fails
> with an "Unknown identifier" error message.

Oh yes, you are correct. This is documented in the menu manual but I
forget it in the announcement. Really sorry, and thanks to have
spotted it.

Menu managers need to
Conflicts: menu (<< 2.1.9-1)

Cheers,
Bill.
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