* Josselin Mouette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041205 13:05]: > Le dimanche 05 décembre 2004 à 11:43 +0100, Andreas Barth a écrit : > > I think most of us agree that non-UTF-8-characters are not a good idea > > (please note the UTF-8-characters is a superset of ASCII). For some > > places (like package names), I think most of us even agree that only > > ASCII-characters should be used. Also, there is the proposal that in > > other fields (i.e. names), an translation should (also) be used if the > > characters are not in some basic classes (more or less: ASCII plus > > ASCII-similar letters). > > > > So, I personally consider non-UTF-8-characters an bug, and > > UTF-8-not-ASCII on the way from bug to allowed. > > Many of us have names that can't be written using ASCII. Furthermore, > the Debian tools need consistency between the developer name in the > changelog and the Maintainer/Uploaders fields in the control file. The > only way for these developers to have a policy-compliant changelog > without having their uploads considered as NMUs is to encode the control > file in UTF-8.
Though I agree on your last statement (and please, remember, I'm from germany where non-ASCII-characters are also in common use), I still consider that UTF-8-not-ASCII has not finally reached ok, but it's on the way to it (and I consider this a good thing). Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C