Re: dpkg & i18n

[Changwoo Ryu <cwryu@adam.kaist.ac.kr>]

Piotr Roszatycki <dexter@fnet.pl> writes:

> I heard about a patch prepared by Debian-JP project's people.
> This patch allows to use translated fields in debian/control
> file. Is it right? Where can I find it?

Translated fields in one file for all the languages, like the recent
rpm .spec change?

I think the rpm change was a serious design mistake (also KDE .kdelnk
and GNOME .desktop were).  Multiple character encodings in one file is
not a good idea.  Maintaining such files is difficult.  In Emacs,
opening such files as a Korean mode might break other 8-bit encodings.

If we don't use additional files, we should use a universal character
set (like UTF-8 or ISO 2022) for debian/control.  But neither of UTF-8
text nor ISO 2022 one is easy to edit with the available editors.

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Changwoo Ryu