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Re: Proposal: Accept any Latin in some control fields (Was: Re: How much utf-8 do we accept in control files?)



On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 09:49:14AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 12:28:20AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> > Well, if one goes to think why currently some maintainers very much
> > would like to use non-ASCII characters, it is because their name is
> > spelled using a Latin alphabet (like English, Swedish, Polish,
> > French), but the ASCII characterset has no support for diacretical marks
> > on those characters, or even lacks the Latin character in their name.
> > This makes their name visibly wierd, it's nearly correct, but some
> > diacretical marks are missing.
> 
> You have to define the x in ISO-8859-x, they are different in the
> characters over 128.

Where did I talk about ISO-8859-x? I didn't even mention that character
set, it isn't in any way part of my proposal or part of my
argumentation.

Did you read my mail?

--Jeroen


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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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