On 2013-08-12 04:18, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 02:51:52AM +0200, Adam Borowski a écrit : >> >> I would like to propose full UTF-8 support. I don't mean here full >> support for all of Unicode's finer points, merely complete eradication of >> mojibake. > > Hi Adam, >
Hi, > this is a great goal. Here are two comments. > > There is a related issue opened on the Policy > (<http://bugs.debian.org/701081>), > where we propose the following: > > - Require UTF-8 for the names of all files and directories installed by > binary packages. For the record, there is a Lintian tag for this now[1], which suggests only a handful of packages violates this. > - Recommend ASCII when possible. > - Require ASCII for files in /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin and /usr/games. > Requiring ASCII for files in $PATH should be trivial to implement as a separate tag. I suppose the ASCII requirement could also be implemented as a pedantic check or so. Regardless, patches welcome. :) > About display by GUIs, I think that we should have a system to install all the > fonts necessary to display languages that we support at the installation. > > Have a nice Debconf ! > ~Niels [1] http://lintian.debian.org/tags/file-name-is-not-valid-UTF-8.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/520895a6.1090...@thykier.net
