On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:23:14AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 04:29, Denis Barbier wrote:
>
> Uploading packages with UTF-8 control fields is not ok. It will simply
> put, not work for anyone who's not using a UTF-8 terminal, which is
> unfortunately probably most of our
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 11:58, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:23:14AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> [...]
> > It looks to me like at this point almost everyone agrees with the
> > content of my proposal in #99933, and we are discussing implementation
> > details. Agreed?
>
> No.
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 14:22, Jochen Voss wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:23:14AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > It looks to me like at this point almost everyone agrees with the
> > content of my proposal in #99933, and we are discussing implementation
> > details. Agreed?
>
> I
Hello,
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:23:14AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> It looks to me like at this point almost everyone agrees with the
> content of my proposal in #99933, and we are discussing implementation
> details. Agreed?
I do STRONGLY DISAGREE with
... Programs included in Debian
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 05:58:31PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> I was unclear, and only speaking about files shipped by Debian packages
> which contain non-ASCII characters without specifying their encoding.
> Users can do whatever they want with their data.
> I have almost txt, man and info pages
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:23:14AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
[...]
> It looks to me like at this point almost everyone agrees with the
> content of my proposal in #99933, and we are discussing implementation
> details. Agreed?
No. We agree that UTF-8 support must be dramatically improved, but
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 04:29, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > but unless someone starts actually _using_ UTF-8, we would never know
> > which tools are broken and which are not (I already found one bug
> > in handling of UTF-8 GPG alias - I'll file the bugreport after some more
> > testing).
Testing our
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:29:33AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
[...]
> A similar approach could be considered for deb control files, a new
> mandatory Encoding field must be added to debian/control (and automatically
> put in other files when needed), which tells encoding used by all control
> file
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 09:29:44AM +0100, Radovan Garabik wrote:
[...]
> > > > #99933 goes a lot farther than #174982. First of all, we can't even
> > > > suggest that people use UTF-8 in package control fields until all our
> > > > tools support it. Right now it is just plain broken to put anyth
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 01:24:26PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 11:45, Radovan Garabik wrote:
>
> > > #99933 goes a lot farther than #174982. First of all, we can't even
> > > suggest that people use UTF-8 in package control fields until all our
> > > tools support it. Rig
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 01:41:47PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 11:07, Michael Bramer wrote:
>
> > The DDTP has no problmes with UTF-8 in control fields. Some maintainer
> > use UTF-8 or something else with 'some translations' in the descriptions.
> >
> > This is not nice.
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 11:07, Michael Bramer wrote:
> The DDTP has no problmes with UTF-8 in control fields. Some maintainer
> use UTF-8 or something else with 'some translations' in the descriptions.
>
> This is not nice.
>
> The policy should be: use normal ACSII and UTF-8 encoding if you use
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 02:36:16AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> [ CC'd to the Debian Description Translation Project maintainer, as he
> may be interested ]
thanks
> On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 13:24, Colin Walters wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 11:45, Radovan Garabik wrote:
> >
> > > > #99933 goes
[ CC'd to the Debian Description Translation Project maintainer, as he
may be interested ]
On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 13:24, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 11:45, Radovan Garabik wrote:
>
> > > #99933 goes a lot farther than #174982. First of all, we can't even
> > > suggest that people
On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 11:45, Radovan Garabik wrote:
> > #99933 goes a lot farther than #174982. First of all, we can't even
> > suggest that people use UTF-8 in package control fields until all our
> > tools support it. Right now it is just plain broken to put anything but
> > ASCII in them.
>
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