Quoting Samuel Thibault (sthiba...@debian.org):

> > Frankly speaking, I have no idea why, in 2004, we decided to drop
> > choices with non ASCII characters. I guess this is because of some
> > limitation of debconf or po-debconf at that time. Or maybe because we
> > have interfaces where only "pure" ASCII is possible.
> 
> I guess gettext was perhaps just not ready for UTF-8 at the time? I had
> to add [encoding: UTF-8] in the po template, and then it worked fine.


Nice catch. I'm preparign an upload.


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