Re: Accepted po-debconf 0.2.2 (all source)
On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 05:45:03PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> [...]
> > I think we need to support multiple encodings for a given language,
> > given the mess it seems Japanese is in.
>
> Not really, there is only one charset used in templates files (EUC-JP),
> but user may have a different charset. This is not only true for Japanese,
> but all other languages may be in UTF-8. What we need is charset conversion
> at runtime.
It would be somewhat elegant if debconf and the eventual translated
package descriptions end up using the same scheme for storing the
translations, which I thought was informally agreed on to be universally
UTF-8, and converted at runtime for display.
Jason
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