On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:20:50PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 04, Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> >If, for whatever reason (such as upstream author's or maintainer's > >> >names, foreign language package description and similar), you need to > >> >use characters outside 7 bit ASCII range in control files, these > >> >characters must be encoded using UTF-8 encoding. > >> I agree with this proposal, but the programs using these files have to > >> be fixed first. > >Sure, just give a list of errors (or better yet, file up > >bugreports) > You are the one using UTF-8 and who knows and cares about it, not me. >
and I will try to fix tools (according to my abilities) if bugs appear. if you do not care about utf-8, nobody forces you to use it - just write documentation and debian control files in plain ASCII (and don't complain if others write them in utf-8) -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
