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Re: How much utf-8 do we accept in control files?



On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 01:43:53PM +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> Fine, that's the encoding side but how do you expect e.g. dpkg to present
> UTF-8 encoded control fields to the user?  If we allow (invented name)
> »Jörg Müller« to see his name correctly displayed we must also allow 
> hebrew, kyrillic, arab, asian etc. names to be correctly displayed.

The locale name includes a field for the encoding.

Bastian

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