Re: Bug#99933: second attempt at more comprehensive unicode policy
Hi,
Sorry for the late entry into the discussion. I am
comfortable with making the changelog UTF-8 only, but file names in
pure UTF-8 perhaps is premature. (मनोज्.conf, anyone?). Indeed,
until we have a wider deployment of a font that has a decent
coverage of UTF-8 glyphs (haw many of y'all can read ሰማይ አይታረስ ንጉሥ
አይከሰስ። ?), perhaps we should stick to pure ascii file names, if we
must have policy take a stance about file names at all?
That is not saying anything about programs that deal with
file names having widechar and encoding support, etc. I feel, as
integrators, we must follow, rather than lead, the majority of the
producers of the software components we integrate.
मनोज
ps: ᚻᛖ ᚳᚹᚫᚦ ᚦᚫᛏ ᚻᛖ ᛒᚢᛞᛖ ᚩᚾ
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and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem
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of LSD
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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