Re: Bug#143941: define a usable character set for description/maintainer name etc.
>>"Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> writes:
Jason> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Sounds like a plan. So we restrict the control file to ASCII?
Jason> If we do that then our current package files are not
Jason> conforming, and I'm not sure how some folks will feel about
Jason> this..
>> From the potato file, here a few samples, the 8 bit char is shown in hex
Jason> notation (from less):
Jason> Maintainer: Bj<F6>rn Brenander <bjorn@debian.org>
Jason> Maintainer: Nicol<E1>s Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>
Jason> Maintainer: Paolo Didon<E8> <dido@prosa.it>
Jason> So we have 3 options, all pretty much equally bad:
Jason> 1) Decree that all package files from at least potato
Jason> onwards are wrong
Jason> 2) Decree that the package files are right, are in some particular
Jason> charset and that all the tools are wrong for not doing conversion
Jason> on display. (viewing the package file on a utf-8 terminal with APT
Jason> does not work apparently)
Jason> 3) Decree that everyone is wrong and use a UTF-8 package file
Jason> Long term, #3 is where we need to be..
Long term everyone is wrong? ;-)
Seems like things are broken at the moment. I don't think
policy should mandate a design for a fix. Let us concentrate on
getting things fixed, then, and when the kinks are thrown out of the
system, we'll document the working method in policy.
manoj
--
Here is the fact of the week, maybe even the fact of the
month. According to probably reliable sources, the Coca-Cola people
are experiencing severe marketing anxiety in China. The words
"Coca-Cola" translate into Chinese as either (depending on the
inflection) "wax-fattened mare" or "bite the wax tadpole". Bite the
wax tadpole. There is a sort of rough justice, is there not? The
trouble with this fact, as lovely as it is, is that it's hard to get
a whole column out of it. I'd like to teach the world to bite a wax
tadpole. Coke -- it's the real wax-fattened mare. Not bad, but
broad satiric vistas do not open up. John Carrol, The San Francisco
Chronicle
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E
1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
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