On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:05:04AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > Heck, if you ask me, Sarge should be known as the "we upgrade everyone > > to UTF-8" Debian release. This would imply that absolutely every > > package to be released in Sarge would know about legacy encodings for > > each locale and be able to recode every config file, man page, > > Not possible. UTF-8 man pages are not yet supported by groff, and won't > be until groff 2.0.
Do you envision this as being possible for Sarge+1 then? At this point, it seems that all Debian-specific tools either default to UTF-8 or can handle UTF-8, so it doesn't seem like such a difficult goal. Then again, maybe I'm missing something? If that's the case, I'll gladly receive educated advice on both matters: 1) Manual conversion of a Woody/Sarge system to UTF-8. 2) Eventual automated upgrade to UTF-8 by Sarge+1 packages. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/
