Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > 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. Yes, that would be nice, but everytime this comes up I get 50 mails from 30 people arginig about Japanese encodings[1]. At this point I assume that they are not sane, transcoding doesn't work at all, etc. -- see shy jo [1] And if any of you replies to this mail... grr.
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