Re: [DDTP] Japanese encoding (Re: [DDTP] French encoding?)

[Clytie Siddall <clytie@riverland.net.au>]

On 18/08/2007, at 10:55 AM, Junichi Uekawa wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> > I am Yukiharu YABUKI who I met you in Debcnf 7.
> >
> > I report to you that Japanese debian people transition default  
> > encoding.
> > Japanse people transtion ja_JP.utf8 in Etch.
> > If you doubt, please ask Japanse Debian developers.
> >
> >
> > (1) Please change Japanses encoding from eucJP to utf8
> >
> > Wrong   :   $charset{'ja'}="euc-jp";
> > Correct :   $charset{'ja'}="utf8"; or just delete right?
>
>
> Is this correct ?
>
> Translator's view: EUC-JP is fine.

All the same, UTF-8 is the standard, so we translators should be  
using it or working towards it, don't you think?
> Apt's view: apt requires utf-8 Packages.gz
>
>
> The problem is that DDTP feeds apt with EUC-JP encoded file whereas
> APT now expects UTF-8 and tries to iconv from there.

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
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