Re: support for multilingual Packages files?

[Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 04:09:40PM +0200, Andreas Bombe wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:11:47PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> &uuml; (which is 'ü') would be 'ue' in ASCII, not 'u'.  These umlaut
> dots aren't just decoration that can be left out. 

In German. In (e.g.) Hungarian, &uuml is just &uuml and cannot 
be replaced with ue. The least incorrect way (but incorrect still)
is to replace it with u.

> (But of course the
> maintainers in question would know that.)

Of course.

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