Re: support for multilingual Packages files?
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 10:40:17AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> > Never use non-ASCII character (I pointed the character with '*').
>
> Yes, that's right, I'm sorry.
>
> > It may confuse multibyte-enabled terminals and users may feel trouble
> > using dselect. Use ASCII transcription (for example, ü -> u, or,
> > I write my name in ASCII characters while my true name must be written
> > in Kanji) or UTF-8 (after waiting for iconv() implementation of
> > Description-handling softwares). It is a bad habit for Latin-1-
> > language-speaking people to assume their encoding is priviledged and
> > universal.
>
> No, it's a bad habit of mine to always forget that character is only
> available in Latin-1 ;-)
nope, it was available also in my latin-2 encoding (at the same position)
so I had no trouble reading it :-)
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