Re: encoding of debian files debian/*

[Wouter van Heyst <larstiq@larstiq.dyndns.org>]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:32:04PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> 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.

I wonder when one stops thinking of a character as in the latin script
then. Obviously Bopomofo is out, and closer to home, so would Cyrillic,
but the Latin page in unicode has some pretty weird ones, like:

	Ɔ or ſ

(LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OPEN O and LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S)

Wouter