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Re: charsets in debian/control



On Sunday 05 December 2004 20.11, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:

> Any parser that acceps 8bit non-ascii chars
> will accept UTF-8 then. What remains is just making the UTF-8 chars
> visually correct then.

And make sure that, where character strings are modified, the multibyte 
sequences are counted right and handled correctly.

This should not be a big problem, but things like display code etc. must now 
be aware that character count == byte count does not longer hold.

-- vbi


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