Bug#292330: project: UTF-8 as default
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On 26-01-2005 15:53, Roger Leigh wrote:
>>>2) See to that all Debian packages handles UTF-8 properly.
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> This is a policy issue. Not all packages need to handle it, so this
> should be a reccommendation rather than a requirement. For example,
> there are specialised packages that only work with certain specific
> encodings, and these should probably not be a priority to change.
> Certainly, all general-purpose packages should be UCS-aware, though.
I agree: Recommendation only.
A concrete case is with my favourite file manager / editor, Midnight
Commander. The package in Debian does not support UTF-8, and switching
to a fork of the package that does may break other things in the program
(because each development branch of the program has different focus, as
I understand the situation).
Similar situation may be for other packages: UTF-8 support may be
avoided in favor of greater stability (similar to the IPv6 support,
where some packages still choose deliberately to avoid it).
- Jonas
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