Re: support for multilingual Packages files?

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

Hi,

At Thu, 5 Jul 2001 17:31:13 +0100,
David Starner <dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org> wrote:

> > there are already some other packages using latin-1, koi8-r and
> > unindentified japanese encoding in description.

Please file bug reports for such packages.  I have not noticed existence
of such packages...


> The Packages file should be in ASCII. UTF-8 will not become dominant for
> many years now, and even then, it will still be useful to be able to read
> the Packages file across 7-bit links on 1973 terminals sometimes. English
> (at least Debian package level English, as opposed to fine typesetting)
> doesn't need UTF-8.

This is very true!

(My opinion on UTF-8 extension of Packages file is _limited to_
future Description-<language> field.)