Re: support for multilingual Packages files?
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:10:16PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At Fri, 06 Jul 2001 08:24:58 +0900,
> Tomohiro KUBOTA <tkubota@riken.go.jp> 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...
>
> I also found that non-ASCII characters are sometimes used for
> Maintainer: field. I don't know what encoding they use.
> I think they should use ASCII characters.
are you going to tell those maintainers to change their names? :-)
yes, if all the languages used ASCII, it would be much easier,
but unfortunately, they do not.
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