Re: support for multilingual Packages files?

[Tomohiro KUBOTA <tkubota@riken.go.jp>]

Hi,

At Fri, 6 Jul 2001 11:16:09 +0200,
Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk> wrote:

> are you going to tell those maintainers to change their names? :-)

Then, may I write my name in non-ASCII letters (Kanji in EUC-JP
encoding) in Maintainer: field ?  Please use ASCII transcription
(for example, &uuml; -> u) for this purpose.  Never use non-ASCII
character here.

It is ISO-8859-1-language-speaking people's bad habit to use
ISO-8859-1 characters for files which may be read by foreign people.


> yes, if all the languages used ASCII, it would be much easier,
> but unfortunately, they do not.

If all the languages used ISO-8859-1, it would be much easier,
but unfortunately, they do not.

However, fortunately, all popular encodings in the world share ASCII.

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Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
"Introduction to I18N"  http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/