On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 01:11:58PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:11:20PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: > > Package: debian-policy > > Version: 3.5.4.0 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > I think Debian should start to move into using UTF-8 by default everywhere. > > What, exactly, does this involve?
- Making sure everything works with UTF-8 charset - Adding UTF-8 charset for every locale - Converting (in debian/rules) documentation files to UTF-8 - Selecting en_US.UTF-8 (or something like that) as the default for LANG= - Echoing some magic sequence on every getty to convert the kernel mode to UTF8 > (Now's probably a bad time, too) I know. I just wanted to present the idea while it was fresh. I too think it would only become possible after the next release. In fact, it's good timing since there's plenty of time for discussion. Making sure everything works with UTF-8 can be started already. Adding the UTF8 charset for every locale might be as simple as editing a config file (I don't know libc6 very well, but I hope it would recode the message catalogs if that is done). -- Cesar Eduardo Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
