On 01 Jan 2003 22:07:08 -0500 > I think it is fairly obvious that we need to eventually transition to > UTF-8 for our package infrastructure; it is really the only sane > charset in an international environment. Now, we can't switch to > using UTF-8 for package control fields and the like until dpkg has > better support, but one thing we can start doing today is requiring > that Debian changelogs are UTF-8 encoded.
Could you provide a quick background about what Unicode is, and how it co-operates with 7-bit ASCII? (A URL is fine, just trying to educate myself.)
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