Package: perl Version: 5.8.8-7 Severity: minor When running cpan for the first time, one gets a series of questions, in particular:
The next option deals with the charset your terminal supports. In general CPAN is English speaking territory, thus the charset does not matter much, but some of the aliens out there who upload their software to CPAN bear names that are outside the ASCII range. If your terminal supports UTF-8, you say no to the next question, if it supports ISO-8859-1 (also known as LATIN1) then you say yes, and if it supports neither nor, your answer does not matter, you will not be able to read the names of some authors anyway. If you answer no, names will be output in UTF-8. Your terminal expects ISO-8859-1 (yes/no)? [yes] However the user may want to use several locales (e.g. an ISO-8859-1 terminal and later, a UTF-8 terminal). An encoding fixed in some config file will lead to a buggy behavior in this case. The correct way to do is to use the locales to determine the output encoding (at run time). -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686-bigmem Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages perl depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdb4.4 4.4.20-8 Berkeley v4.4 Database Libraries [ ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 GNU dbm database routines (runtime ii perl-base 5.8.8-7 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis ii perl-modules 5.8.8-7 Core Perl modules Versions of packages perl recommends: ii perl-doc 5.8.8-7 Perl documentation -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
