* Colin Walters
| On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 13:15, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
| > * Colin Walters
| >
| > | Note that in my proposal UTF-8 filenames are only mandatory (a "must")
| > | for files *included directly* in Debian packages or created by
| > | maintainer scripts. Since I don't think we have any packages including
| > | anything but ASCII filenames, this will not change a thing.
| >
| > You are wrong in this regard. inorwegian includes a file called
| > bokmål (which, ISTR, has symlinks for both ISO8859-1 and UTF8)
|
| Hm, I don't see the symlinks for UTF-8.
Actually, the file names are in UTF8 already. :)
| Anyways, such an approach with symlinks would not really solve the
| problem. Since the files in question appear to be only used
| internally by ispell, it should not be difficult to recode the
| filenames in UTF-8; the only program that would have to be changed
| is ispell.
And any hard coded scripts using -d norsk (or -d bokmal) for getting
Norwegian ispell output.
| Also, inorwegian seems to have scripts which assume an ISO-8859-1
| environment:
|
| Setting up inorwegian (2.0-9) ...
| Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm line 125, <STDIN> line 8.
This is due to debconf not knowing what charset the template is in.
It will be fixed.
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