Re: Addition to choose-mirror template

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 01:05:37PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Junichi Uekawa 
> 
> | On 18 Aug 2002 16:51:42 +0200
> | Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no> wrote:
> | 
> | > | Come to think of it. Which character set should be used? I usually use
> | > | UTF-8 for everything these days, but I think that Swedish translations
> | > | of debconf templates have been in Latin1 before...
> | > 
> | > 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?

This thread is quite interesting:
    http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2002-July/msg00034.html

Denis