On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:43:33PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > Package: dpkg > Tags: patch > > Here is a patch against the current dpkg source (1.10.9), which uses my > little "localeio" library to output UTF-8 strings in the user's current > locale encoding. > > With this patch, the idea is that dpkg will use UTF-8 for all strings > internally, and only convert to the locale's encoding on output. This > patch is still experimental, but it works for me on some tests. [...]
For the record, http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html (and especially the #mod section) contains many valuable informations. Denis
