Re: Proposed release goal: UTF-8 support

2013-10-01 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-01 00:54, Adam Borowski wrote: Hi! As previously (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/08/msg00217.html) discussed, I'd like to propose improving support for UTF-8. All material shipped with Debian should be encoded this way, or, for media with an opaque format, as

Re: Proposed release goal: UTF-8 support

2013-10-01 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Adam, On 01-10-13 00:54, Adam Borowski wrote: * user-accessible interfaces (GUI, stdin, stdout, stderr, command line, reading/writing plain-text files) should be able to pass through UTF-8 data uncorrupted, by default * UTF-8 should be properly displayed I am wondering who is going to

Re: Proposed release goal: UTF-8 support

2013-10-01 Thread Ricardo Mones
On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 06:22:43PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: Hi Adam, On 01-10-13 00:54, Adam Borowski wrote: * user-accessible interfaces (GUI, stdin, stdout, stderr, command line, reading/writing plain-text files) should be able to pass through UTF-8 data uncorrupted, by default

Re: Proposed release goal: UTF-8 support

2013-10-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Ricardo Mones mo...@debian.org writes: Simply stating in the package description that it doesn't support UTF-8 seems more acceptable to me. That a package doesn't met a RG doesn't exclude it from Debian¹, nevertheless it's good to know what to expect from it. For example, OpenAFS doesn't

Re: Proposed release goal: UTF-8 support

2013-09-30 Thread Dominik George
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, As previously (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/08/msg00217.html) discussed, I'd like to propose improving support for UTF-8. All material shipped with Debian should be encoded this way I absolutely second this proposal. Why