Re: support for multilingual Packages files?
On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> Maintainer: Andr* Dahlqvist <andre@debian.org>
> Maintainer: Bj*rn Andersson <bjorn@lifix.fi>
> Maintainer: Bj*rn Brenander <bjorn@debian.org>
> Maintainer: Judica*l Courant <Judicael.Courant@lri.fr>
> Maintainer: Krzysztof Krzy*aniak (eloy) <eloy@transilvania.eu.org>
> Maintainer: Nicol*s Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>
> Maintainer: R*mi Perrot <rperrot@debian.org>
> Maintainer: S*bastien Chaumat <schaumat@debian.org>
> Maintainer: Agust*n Mart*n Domingo <agmartin@debian.org>
> Maintainer: Javier Vi*uales Guti*rrez <vigu@matrio.com>
They all use ISO-8859-1 (or ISO-8859-15, no difference). Well, they
won't change their names. So Debian must increase its support of UTF-8.
By the way, I can't read Japanese (nor Chinese, or Russian), but I find
some beauty to non-latin characters. I would love to be able to read
some Kanji as a maintainer name. (Well, and if there was some library
intelligent enough to make a translation in IPA/Latin characters it
would be all the best).
Debian must strive for i18n support. Of course, you are aware of it :)
--
Jean-Christophe Dubacq -- CS Assistant at Caen University, France.
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