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Re: charsets in debian/control



On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 09:32:00PM +0100, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
>  But the only field in UTF8 should be Maintainer, and that field should
> have (IMHO) also a roman transliterate for the name, if you don't use a
> latin charset (Greek, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese...)

The transliterated field should be called 'Maintainer'. If you want
some other freaky encoding, unsupported by the older tools, put it in
a new field. Using the old field just breaks stuff for no reason.

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