On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:40:35PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:07:59AM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > > Of course, UTF-8 whereever possible is a nice goal to strive after, > > and I think that the debian-specific files are a good place to start. > > Would the place to start not be to make sure that every piece of debian > supports it, and make it a release goal ? I doubt it is still time for > sarge, but maybe for sarge+1 ?
Depends how practical that is, I guess. For example, it's still unknown when groff will support it properly (as in UTF-8 input; UTF-8 output is more or less OK now), since nobody's yet done the work and it's Hard. I don't think we'd want either to delay sarge+1 by an arbitrary amount of time until that happens or to drop man pages from the distribution ... erm, let's not turn this into a man vs. info war! Anyway, proper UTF-8 support often involves a significant amount of upstream design work and development, which contrasts somewhat with things that have been release goals in the past. Something with the force of a "should" is probably what we want, but I'm not sure how to phrase it. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
