Re: Bug#143941: define a usable character set for description/maintainer name etc.
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> 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? ;-)
Naw, unicode!
> 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.
Well, we have to decide what to do. I could go an `fix' apt to assume
UTF-8 and wichert could `fix' dpkg to assume latin1 and we'd be no better
off.
If policy is not the proper forum for deciding this sort of issue then
what is?
Jason
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