Re: support for multilingual Packages files?
Hi,
At Fri, 13 Jul 2001 10:47:41 +0200,
Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk> wrote:
> > btw, non-ASCII characters are not permitted in email headers - and one
> > of the main uses for the Maintainer: field is to provide a contact email
> > address
>
> uh, it did not occur to me...
> finally someone was able to provide a reasonable argument :-)
MIME can be used for mail headers to contain non-ASCII characters.
BTW, there are many mails which use 8bit character (most of them
seem to want to mean ISO-8859-1 characters) in debian-devel and
other lists. They are also illegal without "Content-Type" header
like:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
and it is a fact that many Debian developers send illegal e-mails.
(Anyway, I use EUC-JP terminal to read mails, which mean that
I cannot read ISO-8859-1 characters even with correct "content-type"
header.)
> So, probably these fields should be named Maintainer-email:
> and Maintainer-name: (or just Maintainer:), but,
> though, for backwards compatibility, Maintainer:
> should be RFC 2822-like email address, and
> there would be Maintainer-anything: field with full name.
Mail is only one aspect of this problem. The main problem is
that Debian will support many encodings including UTF-8, ISO-8859-*,
EUC-*, Big5, KOI8-*, and so on for LC_CTYPE locale. I think we don't
need to support EBCDIC as a locale encoding. Fortunately ASCII is
the common part of these encodings and guaranteed to be displayed in
any environments.
> So this is unclear how to interpret this properly,
> if 8-bit characters are allowed when quoted or not at all...
8-bit characters? Do you mean Kanji? Or, Cyrillic?
(Just a joke :-)
---
Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
"Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/
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