On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 03:13:04PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bill Allombert <[email protected]> writes: > > On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 10:51:45AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > >> I think that it emerges from the discussion that there are good uses of > >> Unicode, and that somebody would need to step up and ensure that a > >> dozen of packages are corrected if we were to restrict further the > >> encoding of file names. Moreover, there seems to be a good > >> self-discipline, and Unicode is not used in paths that are central on > >> non-Unicode systems. > > > I have yet to see any good use of 8bit finename in Debian binary packages. > > Many were posted to this thread. I guess I just disagree with you on > whether those uses are "good." For me, allowing the correct spellings of > words and the correct names of things to be represented in file names is > important enough to rise to an ethical goal that I would advocate > adopting. A pure ASCII stance feels like a very English-centric stance.
Filename are not translatable, so a better mechanism is needed anyway. Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130316222417.GB8228@yellowpig
