* Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040831 12:55]: > Helge Kreutzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The Debian Project apologies for the unfortunate german quoting on the > > command line interface. A solution is worked on, but unfortunately > > hasn't made it into Sarge. As a workaround, switching to a UTF-8 based > > locale will avoid the problem.
> Um, why not simply say that UTF-8 is required for the German locale? > It's hardly a workaround--it seems to me that we should encourage > UTF-8 wherever we can. So we do support German, we even support it > correctly, with correct quoting, and the way to get it is to turn on > the UTF-8 based locale. In my opinion, this is a regression. Non-utf-8 did work before, and if we break it, it's a regression. And, if we cannot fix a regression, we should apologies for that. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C