Re: RFC: default encoding of documentation and debian control files

2001-06-04 Thread Colin Watson
Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Given the recent discussion about UTF-8 support in debian, >I would like to come forth with following proposal. >Any comments, suggestions, and grammar corrections are welcome Please make these two: >*Addition to section 3 Control files and their field

Re: Bug#99324: Default charset should be UTF-8

2001-06-04 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:09:28PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:58:37PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > ... > > > > > There has to be an end to this. > > > > Yes, but I doubt we are going to be able to put an en

Re: RFC: default encoding of documentation and debian control files

2001-06-04 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 12:10:56PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 03, Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >If, for whatever reason (such as upstream author's or maintainer's > >names, foreign language package description and similar), you need to > >use characters outside 7 bit

Re: RFC: default encoding of documentation and debian control files

2001-06-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 03, Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If, for whatever reason (such as upstream author's or maintainer's >names, foreign language package description and similar), you need to >use characters outside 7 bit ASCII range in control files, these >characters must be encoded using U

Re: Bug#99324: Default charset should be UTF-8

2001-06-04 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:27:18AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > "Radovan" == Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Radovan> CJK and similar require much different characters fonts then VGA > Radovan> hardware is capable of displaying in text mode - so they neither > Radova