Re: Bug#143941: define a usable character set for description/maintainer name etc.
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 12:49:54PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> If we do that then our current package files are not conforming, and I'm
> not sure how some folks will feel about this..
>
> From the potato file, here a few samples, the 8 bit char is shown in hex
> notation (from less):
> Maintainer: Bj<F6>rn Brenander <bjorn@debian.org>
> Maintainer: Nicol<E1>s Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>
> Maintainer: Paolo Didon<E8> <dido@prosa.it>
I'd just like to mention that each of these non-7-bit characters causes
another override in the script that generates www.debian.org/devel/people...
it would be much nicer if we could just stick to ASCII :)
(Not that I have anything against Latin 1, it's just that it's not right to
privilege just them and not other equally technically complicated charsets.)
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