Re: Accepted po-debconf 0.2.2 (all source)
On Sun, 15 Sep 2002 16:03:25 -0600 (MDT)
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> wrote:
> > 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.
I have had an impression that we didn't need to universally make everything
UTF-8. We can convert from any charset to any other charset (almost).
We already have templates in EUC-JP for Japanese etc., and we don't
even need to throw them away if we support charset conversion from
EUC-JP to the display charset (nl_langinfo (CODESET);, or locale charmap)
That's the situation with debconf, anyway.
regards,
junichi
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