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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 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.

Bastian

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