On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 04:59:43PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 02:20:06PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 01:35:36PM +0200, Martin Godisch wrote: > > > This proposal aims to use UTF-8 encoding not only for debian/changelog, > > > but also for debian/control. Patch attached, as well as plain text for > > > better reading. > > > > Objection. Not until it is supported by the relevant tools. There are > > a number of bugs open on dpkg itself about this, without even > > considering the higher-level tools. > > Some control files contain non-ASCII characters, there is no reason not to > mandate UTF-8 instead of random encodings. It will display incorrectly on the vast majority of workstations. Few people are using UTF-8 terminals. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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