Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It doesn't matter for ekg2, which will stay in experimental for quite a > while I'm afraid, but it is important for at least two other of my > packages (which are in etch) which don't support UTF-8 at all. And I'm > reasonably sure they are not the only packages in etch which don't > support UTF.
Right; for instance, as noted in #229702/#236214, libfltk1.1 and its ~30 reverse-dependencies have the same limitation, which upstream won't address because doing so would break the ABI. > Don't get me wrong, I'm not against UTF-8, but just dropping everything > that doesn't support it, without a former warning, sounds ridiculous. Agreed. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
