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Re: encoding of debian files debian/*



On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:29:22PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> Le Mar 1 F?vrier 2005 19:27, Jeroen van Wolffelaar a ?crit :
> > Use UTF-8, use only the latin alphabet
> 
> why then use utf8 ?

There are hunderds, maybe even up to a thousand latin characters.

ASCII is only a very small subset of the latin script, having only
accent-less characters, and for example lacking an o with a / through
it, etc etc.

--Jeroen

-- 
Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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