>>>>> Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@eds.org> writes: > Package: dpkg-dev
> More and more packages are adding unicode files I assume you mean “UTF-8 filenames” here (per below), right? > as unicode support has become more reliable and available. What are the use cases for such filenames? FWIW, I more than just occasionally use Debian in environments with fonts lacking good (as in: ≥ 90%) Unicode, or even BMP, coverage. (Specifically, I’m for the most part interested in Latin-1, -3, and Cyrillic characters only.) Do you suggest that there’re filenames in Debian packages that cannot be rendered in such environments? If so, that’d certainly be a nuisance for me. > The package building process is not guaranteed to happen in a unicode > locale since the Debian default locale is LC_ALL=C, which is ASCII > not UTF-8. Reading UTF-8 filenames when the system is using ASCII > causes errors (Python makes them very visible, for example). […] -- FSF associate member #7257 np. Fear of the Dark — Iron Maiden B6A0 230E 334A