Bug#227273: packages.debian.org: charset mismatch (always in UTF-8?)

[Tomohiro KUBOTA <debian@tmail.plala.or.jp>]

Hi,

From: Hideki Yamane <henrich@iijmio-mail.jp>
Subject: Bug#227273: marked as done (packages.debian.org: charset mismatch (always in UTF-8?))
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:27:31 +0900

>  http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/9menu.ja.html is nice,
>  it works without mojibake. good.
> 
>  but, see, description of 9menu in list page
>  http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/index.ja.html caused mojibake. 
>  wrong characters are there.

I checked the index.ja.html and found:

1. Starting escape sequence is missing for many descriptions.

    Explanation on starting escape sequences:
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=227273&msg=31

2. For example, 0x3C in Japanese "state" in ISO-2022-JP is wrongly
   regarded as ASCII "<" and then converted into "&lt;".


I now STRONGLY insist that ISO-2022-JP should not be used because
it is difficult to fix all such problems.  I recommend EUC-JP.
Both of above problems will be automatically solved (and more
importantly, we won't have to consider such problems when we
will want to modify or improve the generating scripts).

Hideki, do you prefer ISO-2022-JP even now?  It is Japanese people
who suffer such endless problems!  If we stick to use ISO-2022-JP,
both maintainers and users of Japanese web pages would suffer such
problems forever.

---
Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/