On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:56:48PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,27.Jan.09, 10:30:41, Jens Seidel wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:12:23PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > Please don't. We have switched all Romanian content to the new > > > diacritics (commabelow instead of cedilla bellow) for Lenny (or at least > > > all content that we were aware of), but this change requires us to use > > > UTF-8. > > > > In this case you should also enable the required option for debiandoc-sgml > > namely using the locale ro.utf-8 via option -l! I fixed this for you but > > noticed > > that the installed version of debiandoc-sgml on the build host is too old. > > Does debiandoc-sgml need special knowledge about the ro locale? I > thought UTF-8 would make this unnecessary.
UTF-8 is not supported by all programs! The main problem here is LaTeX which is based on classical (mostly 7 bit) encodings. Yep, there exist extensions but the usage of these requires also explicit support. > Sorry for the troubles, I really didn't expect to have problems with > UTF-8. Also this doesn't make sense to me. It appears to me that zh_CN > is also using UTF-8, how come Romanian doesn't work? zh_CN isn't active and doesn't build (Etch version). zh_TW is active but uses big5 encoding. See http://packages.debian.org/etch/all/debiandoc-sgml/filelist for supported encodings. Remember that you can use UTF-8 in PO file as long as it can be converted into latin2. > Please let's use ISO-8859-2 only as a last resort. I'll try to > investigate this, but my debiandoc-sgml knowledge is inexistent and > currently I have only limited internet access. Patching debiandoc-sgml is not useful in this case as the build host has the stable Etch version installed. The Lenny version supports already ro.UTF-8! Also debiandoc-sgml is more or less dead. > If necessary you could disable Romanian until the issue is solved, one > way or the other. I did so. Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
