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Re: I18n of Packages files



> > I like your idea.
> > I don't understand why dpkg isn't fully i18n? Some time ago I've sent a
> > patch which made i18n for field names. I.e. 
> > $ LANG=pl_PL dpkg -s dpkg
> 
> GAH! That's fully evil.
> 
> Every wonder why things like HTTP and FTP don't have internationalized
> versions? :P

 Evil is to make people need to read everything in your language. You don't
make people read HTTP headers. Anyone who wants to parse a program's output
should set LANG to C anyway.



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