Bug#143941: define a usable character set for description/maintainer name etc.

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net> cum veritate scripsit:

> I don't agree. You are advocating people to use a character set that
> no packaging tool can handle and which is only likele to resort in
> problems for people at the moment.

apt can handle it, dpkg can handle it, and it gets displayed when it is
inside a utf-8 terminal.
I would say it is almost supported. 

Adding character set conversion to apt/dpkg might be a feature, but 
not a required one.


regards,
	junichi

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