On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 03:38, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Actually, if we must take a stance, I would say that while > unicode does remain the only sane choice in the future, at this > point the only sane choice is pure ascii; for reasons that have come > up often in this thread.
I think the vast, vast majority of packages will just use ASCII. I do not forsee many of the compatiblity problems mentioned in this thread coming up often in practice for the very few filenames included in Debian packages. So I think we should allow people to use non-ASCII characters for particular uses, and those should be in UTF-8.
