-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 26-01-2005 15:53, Roger Leigh wrote:
>>>2) See to that all Debian packages handles UTF-8 properly. > > > This is a policy issue. Not all packages need to handle it, so this > should be a reccommendation rather than a requirement. For example, > there are specialised packages that only work with certain specific > encodings, and these should probably not be a priority to change. > Certainly, all general-purpose packages should be UCS-aware, though. I agree: Recommendation only. A concrete case is with my favourite file manager / editor, Midnight Commander. The package in Debian does not support UTF-8, and switching to a fork of the package that does may break other things in the program (because each development branch of the program has different focus, as I understand the situation). Similar situation may be for other packages: UTF-8 support may be avoided in favor of greater stability (similar to the IPv6 support, where some packages still choose deliberately to avoid it). - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: 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 iD8DBQFB97Ydn7DbMsAkQLgRAu7JAJ92QLqLGTtLPz5AG+Oih7VKDkqQlwCfcnR9 Gu6bemN26mBqz4x+s0Li18Y= =ZUHJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----