-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 19-01-2005 12:50, Harald Thingelstad wrote:
> I hope the debian people could just one day step forward, and start > using utf-8 all globally. Basic integration issues should be over by > now, and it'd make multilangual environments *so* much easier. Debian wants to support freedom of choice between UTF-8 and older encodings - for as long as it makes sense. That is an approach similar to that of supporting several different versions of a library concurrently. Example: Perl 5.6 in current official stable release of Debian do not support Unicode properly. UTF-8 is the encoding of the future, but too many places of Debian do not yet support UTF-8. As an example, it is currently mandatatory for Debian developers to encode package changelogs and menu items as UTF-8. But it will still be some time before enough of the 10.000 packages have conformed to this for it to be relied upon. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er n�r: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB7nzfn7DbMsAkQLgRAt/7AKCegQDxV2+A+9YmqCjGZ3cdIlFogACdFyCp YI/FzWvk/mQbHcS6cxl0dUg= =WQB2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
