On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Shahms King wrote:
Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 21:10 +0200, Sebastian Pölsterl wrote:
>> Lastly. RPM or deb files aren't internationalized either.
>
> I didn't know RPM and deb weren't internationalized. If that's
> the case, I think that's a very poor decision on the parts of
> those developers. Both of them contain a lot of information
> that should be translated into the user's language.
Woah there. I can't say for debs, but RPM files most assuredly are
internationalized. There are some oddities with encodings but packagers
Yeah, so far for the theory. In practice however no-one cares enough. I
think that's what he was refering to.
can provide locale dependent descriptions (and, I *think* summaries).
Fedora, at least, requires that spec files be written using US-ASCII
when possible and UTF-8 otherwise, but I'm pretty sure it's possible to
write specfiles in other encodings, as problematic as that might be.
--Shahms
kr,
Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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