Re: Bug#143941: define a usable character set for description/maintainer name etc.
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 04:28:19PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > apt can handle it, dpkg can handle it, and it gets displayed when it is
> > inside a utf-8 terminal.
>
> Which is a very small minority of used terminals.
>
still much better than current situation
> > Adding character set conversion to apt/dpkg might be a feature, but
> > not a required one.
>
> dpkg-query will start doing it, probably in the 1.11 release or so.
>
>
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 05:34:40PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>
> > Since we both seem to agree on that can we agree to implement that
> > post woody and once dpkg, apt and the various frontends handle that
> > properly propose a policy change?
>
> We still have the question about what to do with the latin1 text in the
> woody package file.. It would be nice if woody+1 tools can properly
> display the woody package file.
I would like just to point out that there are not only
latin-1 characters in woody package file. There is also some
koi8-r text and some japanese encoding. So, there never
can be a terminal that displays packages file correctly under
current situation.
>
> We could ask James/etc to remove the 8bit chars before we release.
>
for all who want to contribute to current thread:
read Bug#99933 (it is a policy amendment which did not get into woody
since there was a policy freeze already), and especially look
out in archives the preceeding discussion - Bug#99324,
http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2001/debian-policy-200106/threads.html#00001
http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2001/debian-policy-200106/threads.html#00041
I won't repeat my arguments I explained then.
Just the most relevant issue: for packages file (and similar),
we have to choose if we use pure ASCII, or UTF-8. There is no other way,
and it has been agreed that for woody we would not change anything
substantial, and for woody+1 we should look forward into using UTF-8.
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