On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 12:28:43PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > > But the current situation is *already* broken! For example, for a > > > Chinese person, an ISO-8859-1 system simply cannot encode, nor display, > > > their language. I am aware that for people entrenched in legacy > > > charsets like ISO-8859-1, the transition may introduce > > > incompatibilities. But that's the price we pay to eventually make > > > everything work for everyone. > > > > See http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2003-01/msg00037.html > > It would be nice to make sure programs are ready before switching > > everything to utf-8. > > The point is, we have working "iconv", and > changing changelog will work.
We are not discussing changelog encoding here, see #174982. Indeed we have iconv, this is exactly why we do not need to break things and convert everything into UTF-8, but we can instead make sure all strings have a defined encoding and patch our tools to perform runtime encoding conversion. This is how debconf works, and I don't see why other tools can't do the same. Denis
