Re: Addition to choose-mirror template

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

* Junichi Uekawa 

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| On 19 Aug 2002 13:05:37 +0200
| Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no> wrote:
| > | > UTF-8.
| > | 
| > | I think they need to be written in latin-1, and then converted to UTF-8 
| > | possibly in the build scripts.
| > 
| > uhm, why?
| 
| Aren't there already packages which are producing debs and udebs at
| the same time ?

Yes, there are.  IDSTR any of them having any templates.

| If so, they probably want UTF-8 and non-utf-8 versions of templates,
| and since non-utf-8 templates predate utf-8 templates (which probably do not
| exist yet), for compatibility, including utf-8 templates in source are "bad".

Then they can convert those on build, when installing them into the
udeb.  Or dh_installdebconf can be fixedhacked to DTRT for udeb
templates.

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