On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 01:41:47PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 11:07, Michael Bramer wrote: > > > The DDTP has no problmes with UTF-8 in control fields. Some maintainer > > use UTF-8 or something else with 'some translations' in the descriptions. > > > > This is not nice. > > > > The policy should be: use normal ACSII and UTF-8 encoding if you use > > non-ACSII characters > > Well, you can reduce that to 'just use UTF-8', since UTF-8 is a strict > superset of ASCII. So I agree with you, but we need to wait for this > patch to get into dpkg before we can add such a rule to policy. ok. Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debsupport.de PGP: finger grisu@db.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux Koeln ist wie Unix, Duesseldorf eher wie DOS.
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