On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 05:18:58PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > > > sure, still valid UTF-8, but it's UTF-8 for what the UTF-8 is if > > interpreted according to Latin1. I thought dpkg didn't assume anything > > at all about the encoding in control files? That it expected us-ascii > > and damn everyone who didn't follow that. Can I fix this somehow, or are > > we doomed to having several encodings in the file because we can't do > > UTF-8? > > I don't think it is a workable solution to have Description-xx fields encoding on > 8-bit encoding. > > Could we move that out of Description-xx: lines to > generate some kind of po file?
Po-debconf is based on intltool scripts, written by GNOME. I added support for rfc822 format (partly incorporated upstream), modified scripts are available at /usr/share/po-debconf/. These scripts can be used to deal with control files too. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
