Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: > I think debconf should use UTF-8 for the templates and recode on the fly.
Well, if you send in a patch, I will consider it. > There's nothing worse than having gibberish in ten different charsets in the > same template file. This is why the template file is the "compiled" form. You're intended to merge together a bunch of files that just have one (or 2, with English) languages in them. See debconf-mergetemplate(1). -- see shy jo