Re: support for multilingual Packages files?

["David Starner" <dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Colin Walters <walters@cis.ohio-state.edu>
To: <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 9:06 PM
Subject: Re: support for multilingual Packages files?


> Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk> writes:
>
> > this is just a "get along" system, before utf-8 is universally
> > accepted and all major issues solved
>
> I encourage people who think that Unicode is the be-all-end-all
> solution to read the following message from the Guile user mailing
> lists, which came about during a discussion of string representation:

I think that most people who think that Unicode is the be-all end-all
solution have heard those complaints. A lot of it amounts to familiarity
with one system over another. Few Westerners find appeal in a system that
distinguishes Japanese and Chinese, but not French, German and English.
Plane 14 tags will distinguish all languages in Unicode, if one choses to
use them.

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David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org