Re: 8bit characters in files in Debian packages

2011-04-01 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 07:05:10PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: > > So this raises two issues: > > 1) should non-7bit characters in filenames be allowed > > Yes, I don't see a good reason to forbid them. In particular when we are > in an international

Re: 8bit characters in files in Debian packages

2011-04-01 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 15:58 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > Dear Developpers, > > there are a small numbers of packages that ship files with non-7bit > characters in filenames. > $ apt-file search -l -x '[\x80-\xff]' > > aspell-ca > aspell-es > aspell-is > canorus > console-tools > dvb-apps > ggz

Re: 8bit characters in files in Debian packages

2011-04-01 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 09:02:49AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: > > First this might force users to use UTF-8 locale. While this is the > > default, this is not > > mandatory in Debian. I know users that stays with ISO8859-1 because they > > have a lo

Re: 8bit characters in files in Debian packages

2011-04-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: > First this might force users to use UTF-8 locale. While this is the default, > this is not > mandatory in Debian. I know users that stays with ISO8859-1 because they have > a lot of > text files in that encoding. > > Until the C.UTF-8 proposal is impl

Re: 8bit characters in files in Debian packages

2011-03-31 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 07:05:10PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: > > So this raises two issues: > > 1) should non-7bit characters in filenames be allowed > > Yes, I don't see a good reason to forbid them. In particular when we are > in an international

Re: 8bit characters in files in Debian packages

2011-03-31 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: > So this raises two issues: > 1) should non-7bit characters in filenames be allowed Yes, I don't see a good reason to forbid them. In particular when we are in an international environment and we are targetting full localization. > 2) if yes whould we r

8bit characters in files in Debian packages

2011-03-31 Thread Bill Allombert
Dear Developpers, there are a small numbers of packages that ship files with non-7bit characters in filenames. $ apt-file search -l -x '[\x80-\xff]' aspell-ca aspell-es aspell-is canorus console-tools dvb-apps ggz-python-games inorwegian jpilot lletters-media otrs2 wnorwegian So this raises two