On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:55:01AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > The plain text does not go beyond ASCII. Neither UTF-8 nor ISO-8859-1.
>
> % zgrep ?? /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.txt.gz
> Copyright ?? 1996,1997,1998 Ian Jackson and Christian Schwarz.
>
> How do you explain that? Hon
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 03:38:43PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > > I think it may be best if this encoding changes are done at the same
> > > time when this documentation is moved to docbook-xml format.
> >
> > I'm entirely not convinced that we should go beyond ASCII because a program
> > can't be
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:42:30PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:49:03AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > I think it may be best if this encoding changes are done at the same
> > time when this documentation is moved to docbook-xml format.
>
> I'm entirely not convinced that w
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:49:03AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> I think it may be best if this encoding changes are done at the same
> time when this documentation is moved to docbook-xml format.
I'm entirely not convinced that we should go beyond ASCII because a program
can't be taught to convert ©
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 13:49, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> I think it may be best if this encoding changes are done at the same
> time when this documentation is moved to docbook-xml format.
That's perfectly fine by me.
Hi,
I prefer to migrate to UTF-8.
But simply changing source file to UTF-8 has some issues which you may
want to consider in advance. (debian-policy being English only manual,
risks are small.)
I think it may be best if this encoding changes are done at the same
time when this documentation is
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 16:28, Josip Rodin wrote:
> I'm not seeing that with the copy of policy.txt.gz which I generated myself.
> Looks like debiandoc2text on Manoj's system used a different, Latin1 locale
> and replaced Š for © on my Latin2 system it did no such (foolish) thing.
> For the record,
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:01:03PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > Umm, maybe because we use ©?
>
> Right, but the output documents seem to be ISO-8859-1 encoded. For
> example:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> zcat /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.txt.gz | iconv
> --from-code=UTF-8 --to-code=UTF-8 1>
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 13:24, Josip Rodin wrote:
> Umm, maybe because we use ©?
Right, but the output documents seem to be ISO-8859-1 encoded. For
example:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> zcat /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.txt.gz | iconv
--from-code=UTF-8 --to-code=UTF-8 1>/dev/null
iconv: illegal inp
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:19:39PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
>
> On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 11:48, Clint Adams wrote:
> > > This proposal is a fairly important yet easy to take first step along
> > > the way of transitioning all of Debian to UTF-8.
> > >
> > > Attached is a
Package: debian-policy
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 11:48, Clint Adams wrote:
> > This proposal is a fairly important yet easy to take first step along
> > the way of transitioning all of Debian to UTF-8.
> >
> > Attached is a patch against the latest version of policy.
>
> Seconded. The policy docume
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