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Bug#99933: Bug#174982: [PROPOSAL]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded



On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 05:58:31PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> I was unclear, and only speaking about files shipped by Debian packages
> which contain non-ASCII characters without specifying their encoding.
> Users can do whatever they want with their data.
> I have almost txt, man and info pages in mind.  IIRC *BSD put man pages
> under .../man/<language>.<encoding>/, don't they?

I suggest that no decision should be made about man pages until groff
2.0 is available, when proper encoding support will actually be
practical as opposed to the hacks we have today. Until then it will not
be at all clear to me how things should work.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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