Bug#99933: Bug#174982: [PROPOSAL]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded
[ CC'd to the Debian Description Translation Project maintainer, as he
may be interested ]
On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 13:24, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 11:45, Radovan Garabik wrote:
>
> > > #99933 goes a lot farther than #174982. First of all, we can't even
> > > suggest that people use UTF-8 in package control fields until all our
> > > tools support it. Right now it is just plain broken to put anything but
> > > ASCII in them.
> >
> > But people are putting ISO-8859-1 there, now and then.
>
> Yes, and it is fundamentally broken to do so, because our tools do not
> support it.
Ok, I spent a little bit of time and hacked up some experimental patches
for dpkg to support UTF-8, and to recode it to the locale's encoding
type on output. If you'd like to play, see:
http://bugs.debian.org/175363
http://bugs.debian.org/175370
Hopefully we can get these into dpkg soon, and at that point we can
start using UTF-8 in maintainer fields and package descriptions.
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