[ CC'd to the Debian Description Translation Project maintainer, as he may be interested ]
On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 13:24, Colin Walters wrote: > On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 11:45, Radovan Garabik wrote: > > > > #99933 goes a lot farther than #174982. First of all, we can't even > > > suggest that people use UTF-8 in package control fields until all our > > > tools support it. Right now it is just plain broken to put anything but > > > ASCII in them. > > > > But people are putting ISO-8859-1 there, now and then. > > Yes, and it is fundamentally broken to do so, because our tools do not > support it. Ok, I spent a little bit of time and hacked up some experimental patches for dpkg to support UTF-8, and to recode it to the locale's encoding type on output. If you'd like to play, see: http://bugs.debian.org/175363 http://bugs.debian.org/175370 Hopefully we can get these into dpkg soon, and at that point we can start using UTF-8 in maintainer fields and package descriptions.
