Re: support for multilingual Packages files?
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Radovan Garabik wrote:
> > transliterations. Also, I want to be able to admin Debian from any terminal
> > with ASCII support, and that includes possible running the Packages file
> > through more (as dselect/ncurses may be broken, or worse, libc is broken.)
> so? you run Packages through more. You see some garbage in some
> maintainers' names, or in some descriptions. Do not tell me this is
> a problem (and besides, there ALREADY ARE 8-bit characters in Packages,
> so this does not count as argument against utf-8 in Packages)
It does count as an argument against utf-8 in Packages, because it's not
agreed that the 8-bit characters in Packages SHOULD be there.
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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