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Re: support for multilingual Packages files?



On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 11:47:08PM +0200, Niklas Hoglund wrote:
> > $ grep -vE '^(Description.+|Maintainer-utf8):' < Packages > Packages-ascii
> 
> This might fail on UTF-8.  The ASCII code for newline may be part of a
> multibyte character (I think), so part of a description may be left.

No, UTF-8 was specifically designed to avoid this.

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Richard Braakman
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