Re: Accepted po-debconf 0.2.2 (all source)
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 10:23:41PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:01:32 +0900,
> Junichi Uekawa wrote:
>
> > Description-XX_XX.XXX: is a better way to put it.
> >
> > I gather that older debconf don't understand the Encoding-xx: header.
> > We want new Description-whatever to not to go in the way of older
> > debconf.
>
> Now I understand what you think. Introduction of "Encoding-ja: EUC-JP"
> type header (in /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.templates) may results in
> Description-ja in UTF-8 (or any other encodings other than EUC-JP),
> which may confuse old (i.e., current) version of debconf, you think.
> It is true; but such confusing situation is limited to combination of
> packages with new debconf templates and old debconf package.
Well it is even more confusing than you think ;)
Jason Gunthorpe told that Description-* fields for package descriptions
will be UTF-8 encoded, but it is in no way related to Description-* fields
in /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.templates; we currently do not know where these
fields will be put, but certainly not in .templates files.
Denis
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